Tragic Rites : Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama / Adriana Brook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brook, Adriana E., author.

Series:

Wisconsin studies in classics.

Wisconsin studies in classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sophocles--Criticism and interpretation.

Sophocles.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyzes the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them- Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonu s-in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus. Exploring the playwright's dramatic technique, she shows how he used elements of ritual to guide the perceptions and expectations of his fifth-century audience about plot and character.Employing both modern ritual theory and Aristotle's Poetics, Brook exposes the deep structural analogies between ritual and narrative, the parallels between mistakes in ritual and deviations from the expected in the plot, and the relationship between ritual content and dramatic closure.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780299313838

0299313832

OCLC:

1018944961