Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow : Art, Gender, and Commemoration in ‹i›Alcestis, Hippolytus‹/i›, and ‹i›Hecuba‹/i› /

Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Segal, Charles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [1993]
Temas:
Alcestis (Greek mythology) in literature.
Grief in literature.
Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature.
Hippolytus (Greek mythology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Tragedy.
Trojan War > Literature and the war.
DRAMA / Ancient & Classical.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Euripides' Muse of Sorrows and the Artifice of Tragic Pleasure
  • Alcestis
  • 3. Cold Delight: Art, Death, and Transgression of Genre
  • 4. Female Death and Male Tears
  • 5. Admetus' Divided House: Spatial Dichotomies and Gender Roles
  • Hippolytus
  • 6. Language, Signs, and Gender
  • 7. Theater, Ritual, and Commemoration
  • 8. Confusion and Concealment: Vision, Hope, and Tragic Knowledge
  • Hecuba
  • 9. Golden Armor and Servile Robes: Heroism and Metamorphosis
  • 10. Violence and the Other: Greek, Female, and Barbarian
  • 11. Law and Universals
  • 12. The Problem of the Gods
  • 13. Conclusion: Euripides' Songs of Sorrow
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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