How Greek tragedy works : a guide for directors, dramaturges, and playwrights /
How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage with these enduring plays. Brian Kulick dispels the trepidation that many readers feel with regard to c...
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| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני |
| שפה: | אנגלית |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2021.
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| גישה מקוונת: | Taylor & Francis |
תוכן הענינים:
- Introduction: 115th and Broadway, circa 410 BCE; PART I: CONVERSING WITH SHADOWS; ON THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT TEXTS; 1. Raising the dead; or, theatre as thanatology; 2. Antigone. A journey to the underworld of the text: how to read a Greek tragedy; 3. Dictionary for the ghost language of the tragic; PART II: TOWARD AN ALTERNATE POETICS; OR, WHAT OUR THREE GREEK TRAGEDIANS CAN TELL US ABOUT THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF THE TRAGIC; 4. Aeschylus's Agamemnon; or, first principles; 5. Sophocles' Electra; or, the dialectics of the tragic; 6. Euripides' The Bacchae; or, recognition as re-cognition; PART III: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FORM; 7. Tragedy as "the metaphor of an intellectual intuition;" Hölderlin on the poetics of the tragic; 8. Among the ruins: what the fragments can tell us about Greek tragedy; CODA: BACK TO THE LIGHT OF DAY; Appendices