Staged Narrative : Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy /
The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the de.
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Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2002.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Aeschylus' Persians: the messenger and epic narrative
- The literary messenger, the tragic messenger
- Euripides' Bacchae: the spectator in the text
- Homer and the art of fiction in Sophocles' Electra
- Rhesos and poetic tradition.