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Author : Adriana E. Brook
Release : 2018
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 808/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tragic Rites by : Adriana E. Brook
Download or read book Tragic Rites written by Adriana E. Brook. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
Author : Adriana E. Brook
Release : 2018
Genre : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 838/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tragic Rites by : Adriana E. Brook
Download or read book Tragic Rites written by Adriana E. Brook. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Sources -- Introduction: Ritual Poetics in the Plays of Sophocles -- 1. Normative Rituals and Ritual Mistakes in the Antigone, Trachiniae, and Oedipus Tyrannus -- 2. Ritual Conflation in the Ajax -- 3. Ritual Repetition in the Electra -- 4. Ritual Status in the Philoctetes -- 5. Supplication in the Oedipus at Colonus -- Conclusion: Ritual and Closure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author : Burkhard Fehr
Release : 2024-08-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 74X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual by : Burkhard Fehr
Download or read book Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual written by Burkhard Fehr. This book was released on 2024-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual —offered to Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering scholar— shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts — from impressionist painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.
Author : Claude Calame
Release : 2024-05-31
Genre : Drama
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 253/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Choral Tragedy by : Claude Calame
Download or read book Choral Tragedy written by Claude Calame. This book was released on 2024-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.
Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Release : 1995
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy by : Naomi Conn Liebler
Download or read book Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy written by Naomi Conn Liebler. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as `sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.
