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Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text
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This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.
Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title Page, Title Page
Also by Charles Segal
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I GREEK TRAGEDY: MYTH AND STRUCTURE
1. Greek Tragedy and Society: A Structuralist Perspective
2. Greek Myth as a Semiotic and Structural System and the Problem of Tragedy
3. Greek Tragedy: Writing, Truth, and the Representation of the Self
II SOPHOCLES
4. Visual Symbolism and Visual Effects in Sophocles
5. Sophoclesâ Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone
III EURIPIDES
6. The Tragedy of the Hippolytus: The Waters of Ocean and the Untouched Meadow
7. The Two Worlds of Euripidesâ Helen
8. Pentheus and Hippolytus on the Couch and on the Grid: Psychoanalytic and Structuralist Readings of Greek Tragedy
9. Euripidesâ Bacchae: The Language of the Self and the Language of the Mysteries
IV TRANSFORMATIONS
10. Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy
11. Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays
12. Literature and Interpretation: Conventions, History, and Universals
Index
| ISBN | 9781501746710 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9781501746697, 9781501746703 |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.68519 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1122599273 |
| Pages | 390 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2019-10-10 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
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