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Narrative, intertext, and space in Euripides' Phoenissae / by Anna A. Lamari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamari, Anna A.
- Series:
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 6.
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature.
- Polynices (Greek mythological figure).
- Polynices.
- Eteocles, King of Thebes (Mythological character).
- Eteocles.
- Thebes (Greece)--In literature.
- Thebes (Greece).
- Euripides. Phoenician women.
- Euripides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and drama, this book uses the former as a working tool for the study and interpretation of the latter. The Phoenissae is approached as a coherent narrative unit and issues like the use of myth, narrators, intertext, time and space are discussed in detail. It is within these contexts that the play is seen as a Theban mythical 'thesaurus' both exploring previous mythical ramifications and making new additions. The result is rewarding: Euripides constructs a handbook of the Theban saga that was informative for those mythically untrained, fascinating for those theatrically demanding, but also dexterously open upon each one's reception.
- Contents:
- Theorizing tragic narration
- Retelling the past, shaping the future: onstage narrative and offstage allusions (1-689)
- Violating expectations: offstage narrative and the play's open end (670-1766)
- Intertextuality
- Space
- Conclusions
- Myth for all: the play's flexi-narrative
- Appendix I: the trilogy
- Appendix II: the text.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612885198
- 9781282885196
- 1282885197
- 9783110245936
- 3110245930
- OCLC:
- 689997555
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