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Euripides' Revolution under Cover : An Essay /
This work explores Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, this book goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition
- Anthropomorphism
- The protection of the self and the role of sophia
- Some connotations of sophia
- Polyneikes' truth
- Hecuba's rhetoric
- Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War
- The lewd gaze of the eye
- The power of love : who is Aphrodite?
- Phaedra
- Hermione : the Andromache
- Female victims of war : The Troades
- Survival in poetry
- Figures of metalepsis : the invention of literature
- The failure of politics in Euripides's poetics : politics in Suppliant women
- Political philosophy : a universal program of peace and progress
- How to deliberate a war
- Democracy and monarchy
- The battle
- The rescue of the corpses
- Return to arms
- The polis's loss of control and authority
- The Bacchants' gospel and the Greek city
- Pentheus and Tiresias
- Dionysus' revenge : first round
- Revenge prepares its murderous weapons
- Initiation and sacrifice
- Victory and defeat
- Euripides's poetry.