The Politics of Form in Greek Literature

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London, UK. He is author of The Classics and Colonial India (2013) and co-editor (with D. L. Selden) of The Oxford Handbook of the Literatures of the Roman Empire (in progress) and (with Susan A. Stephens) of Classics and National Cultures (2010). He is series editor of Bloomsbury's Ancients and Moderns series.

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List of Contributors

Introduction
Phiroze Vasunia, University College London, UK

Part I: Verse (and Some Prose)

1. Disagreement, Complexity and the Politics of Homer’s Verbal Form
Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

2. Sophocles’ Antigone, Feminism’s Hegel and the Politics of Form
Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge, UK

3. The Aporia of Action and the Agency of Form in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis
Victoria Wohl, University of Toronto, Canada

4. Forms of Survival
Susan Stephens, Stanford University, USA

Part II: Prose (and Some Verse)

5. The Politics of Informed Form: Plato and Walter Benjamin
Andrew Benjamin, Monash University, Australia

6. Plato’s Seventh Letter, or How to Fashion a Subject of Resistance
Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA

7. Body Politics in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric
Nancy Worman, Barnard College/Columbia University, USA

8. Aristotle’s Lost Works for the Public and the Politics of Academic Form
Edith Hall, King’s College London, UK

9. Politics and Form in Xenophon
Rosie Harman, University College London, UK

Part III: Word and Image

10. The Politics of Form in Eighteenth-Century Visions of Ancient Greece
Daniel Orrells, King’s College London, UK

11. Ekphrasis, Leo Spitzer and the Politics of Form
Ruth Webb, Université Lille, France

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