Staged narrative : poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy / James Barrett.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Barrett, James, 1953-

Series:

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Messengers in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

Twenty-six of the thirty-two extant Greek tragedies have messenger speeches: lengthy descriptions to inform on-stage characters about events that have transpired off-stage. This book is about those speeches, especially about whether and why we take the information they convey to be true.

Contents:

Introduction

Aeschylus' Persians: the messenger and epic narrative

The literary messenger, the tragic messenger

Euripides' Bacchae: the spectator in the text

Homer and the art of fiction in Sophocles' Electra

Rhesos and poetic tradition.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index.

ISBN:

0520231805

OCLC:

47831427