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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barrett, James, 1953-
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
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.