Interpreting Greek Tragedy : Myth, Poetry, Text /

This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek t...

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Auteur principal: Segal, Charles, 1936-2002
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1986.
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Table des matières:
  • Greek tragedy and society
  • Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy
  • Greek tragedy
  • Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles
  • Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone
  • The tragedy of the Hippolytus
  • The two worlds of Euripides' Helen
  • Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid
  • Euripides' Bacchae
  • Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy
  • Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language
  • Literature and interpretation.