02570oam 22005174a 450 991036763790332120210915045225.01-5017-4670-710.7591/9781501746703(CKB)4100000010105033(OCoLC)1122599273(MdBmJHUP)muse77949(DE-B1597)535325(OCoLC)1127204973(DE-B1597)9781501746703(EXLCZ)99410000001010503319851126d1986 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInterpreting Greek TragedyMyth, Poetry, Text /Charles SegalIthaca, N.Y. :Cornell University Press,1986.©1986.1 online resource (384 p. )Essays published over a period of twenty years.0-8014-1890-9 9781501746697 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Mythology, Greek, in literatureGreek drama (Tragedy)History and criticismElectronic books. Mythology, Greek, in literature.Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism.882/.01/09FE 4425rvkSegal Charles1936-153616MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910367637903321Interpreting Greek Tragedy2438426UNINA