Queer Euripides : Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Paperback)

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Queer Euripides: An Introduction (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telo, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part I. Temporalities 1. Hippolytus: Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siecle and Now (Daniel Orrells, King's College, London, UK) 2. Rhesus: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK) 3. Trojan Women: No Futures (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Part II. Escape/Refusal 4. Iphigenia in Aulis: Perhaps (Not) (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 5. Helen: Queering the Barbarian (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA) 6. Children of Heracles: Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) 7. Suppliant Women: Adrastus's Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion (Mario Telo, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part III: Failure 8. Medea: Failure and the Queer Escape (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA) 9. Alcestis: Impossible Performance (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) 10. Ion: Into the Queer Ionisphere (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA) Part IV: Relations 11. Heracles: Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia) 12. Andromache: Catfight in Phthia (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA) 13. Orestes: Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part V. Reproduction 14. Hecuba: The Dead Child or Queer for a Day (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 15. Phoenician Women: "Deviant" Thebans Out of Time (Rosa Andujar, Kings' College, London, UK) 16. Electra: Parapoetics and Paraontology (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Part VI: Encounters 17. Iphigenia in Tauris: Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer/Performing Queer (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK) 18. Cyclops: A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part VII: Transitions 19. Hippolytus: Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA) 20. Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria: Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA) 21. Bacchae: "An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?" (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK) Notes Bibliography Index