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Record Nr.

UNINA9910367637903321

Autore

Segal Charles <1936->

Titolo

Interpreting Greek Tragedy : Myth, Poetry, Text / / Charles Segal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

1-5017-4670-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p. )

Classificazione

FE 4425

Disciplina

882/.01/09

Soggetti

Mythology, Greek, in literature

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays published over a period of twenty years.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.