Interpreting Greek tragedy
Subtitle: myth, poetry, text
By: Charles Segal.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays published over a period of twenty years.
Table of contents: title: Greek tragedy and society; title: Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy; title: Greek tragedy; title: Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles; title: Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone; title: The tragedy of the Hippolytus; title: The two worlds of Euripides' Helen; title: Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid; title: Euripides' Bacchae; title: Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy; title: Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language; title: Literature and interpretation.