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Choral mediations in Greek tragedy /

This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gagné, Renaud, 1976- (Editor ), Hopman, Marianne Govers, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The chorus in the middle / Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman
  • Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs / Claude Calame
  • Chorus, conflict and closure in Aeschylus' Persians / Marianne Hopman
  • Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia / Jonas Grethlein
  • Choreography: the lyric voice of Sophoclean Tragedy / Simon Goldhill
  • Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus / Laura A. Swift
  • The choral plot of Euripides' Helen / Sheila Murnaghan
  • Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in Tauris and Athenian imperial economics in a polytheistic world / Barbara Kowalzig
  • Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae / Anton Bierl
  • The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical drama / Gregory Nagy
  • Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello
  • The comic chorus and the demagogue / Jeffrey Henderson
  • Dancing letters: the alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias / Renaud Gagné
  • Choral dialectics: Hölderlin and Hegel / Joshua Billings
  • Enter and exit the chorus: dance in Britain 1880
  • 1914 / Fiona Macintosh
  • "The thorniest problem and the greatest opportunity": directors on directing the Greek chorus / Peter Meineck.