Prophesying Tragedy : Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays / Rebecca Weld Bushnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bushnell, Rebecca W., 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prophecies in literature.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration

Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy

Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs

Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone

Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the King

Chapter 5. The Heroic Prophet: Oedipus at Co/onus

Epilogue: Euripides and the Erasure of Prophecy

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-4558-1

OCLC:

1129175276