Iphigenias at Aulis
Subtitle: textual multiplicity, radical philology
By: Sean Alexander Gurd.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Euripides.; Euripides. -- Criticism, Textual.; Iphigenia (Greek mythology) in literature.
Description: "How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits - and the accomplishments - of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics." "Regarding the dossier of successive editions of Iphigenia at Aulis as a symbol for the condition of modern textual reason, Gurd shows lovers of classical literature exactly how contingent the texts really are."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: On critical variation, and a sacrifice; title: The fetishism of the critical text; title: For a radical philology; title: Allegories of instability; title: The entropic text.