Figures of play : Greek drama and metafictional poetics /
Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited the community of the polis to confront itself. In the theatre, as in the courts and assemblies, a si...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: METATHEATER: THREE PHENOMENAL MODES: Drama and metafiction
- Figures of play, Part 1: surface play and Mise en Abyme
- Figures of play, Part 2: the comic contrafact
- PART II: THE ANATOMY OF DRAMATIC FICTION: TRAGIC MADNESS: Aias, Sophokles' Aias, Madness and the show within
- Pentheus: Euripides' Bakkhai as a contest of fictions
- PART III: THE ANATOMY OF DRAMATIC FICTION: COMIC UTOPIA: Bellerophontes: Euripides' Bellerophontes and Aristophanes' Peace
- Tereus: Sophokles' Tereus and Aristophanes' Birds
- Herakles: Euripides' Peirithous and Aristophanes' Frogs
- Conclusion.