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Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy.
Analyses how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning.
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Euripides, Electra 699-746; Tragedy as a choral genre; A multi-layered medium; Chorus and audience; From Athens to the American stage; Chapter 2 Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs; 1. Tragic choral identities; 2. Choral procedures of enunciative polyphony and pragmatics; 3. Enunciative 'intermedialities' of the tragic chorus; 4. Between choral polyphony and performative self-referentiality; Chapter 3 Chorus, conflict, and closure in Aeschylus' Persians; Choral perspectives; (a) Objects of focalization; (b) Zooming.
- (C) Filters(d) Slant; A choral plot; Choral closure; Chapter 4 Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia; I. Anachronies: a panopticon of times past, present and future; II. General reflections: blurring the borderline between past and present; III. Mise en abyme: mirroring the enactment of the heroic past; IV. Ritual: blending together past and present; V. Conclusion; Chapter 5 Choreography; I. The construction of the choral voice; II. The voice of the chorus: metre and the slippages of song; Chapter 6 Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus; Medea; Ion; Conclusion.
- Chapter 7 The choral plot of Euripides' HelenChapter 8 Transcultural chorality; 1. Introduction; 2. The Greek chorus in a Mediterranean context; 3. Maritime Artemis and cultural differentiation in the Iphigenia in Tauris; 4. Artemis Tauropolos as a transcultural goddess; 5. Transcultural chorality and the routing of Pontic trade; Chapter 9 Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae; Introduction; A choral reading of the Bacchae; The parodos; Choral self-referentiality in the rest of the play; Conclusion.
- Chapter 10 The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical dramaIntroduction; The Delian Maidens in the Homeric Hymn (3) to Apollo; Four words relating to the mimesis performed by the Delian Maidens; The making of mimesis by the chorus; The democratizing of choral lyric; Homers Delian Maidens and Hesiods Muses as models of mimesis; Choral performance as a nonprofessional activity; The evolution of the choral poet-director; About the making of mimesis by the tragic chorus; Idiosyncrasies of the chorus in Athenian tragedy; The Delian Maidens as models of theatrical mimesis.
- The Delian Maidens as models of choral performance in tragedyConclusions; Chapter 11 Choral persuasions in Platos Laws; 1. Divine and human choreia: order, pleasure and belief; 2. Euphmia vs thrnos: Magnesias choruses and civic purity; Chapter 12 The comic chorus and the demagogue; Chapter 13 Dancing letters; Passage 1; Passage 2; Passage 3; Passage 4; Chapter 14 Choral dialectics; Hölderlin: republican revolution12; Hegel: the crisis of the polis47; A choral revolution?; Chapter 15 Enter and exit the chorus; Enter the chorus; Choruses in performance in early twentieth-century Britain.