| Description |
384 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Analysis |
Drama in Greek Tragedies to ca 500 |
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Drama in Greek Tragedies, to ca 500 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Essays published over a period of twenty years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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| LC no. |
85048266 |
| ISBN |
0801418909 |
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0801493625 |
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