Tragic Rites : Narrative and Ritual in Sophoclean Drama
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
ISBN-10
0299313808
ISBN-13
9780299313807
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
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University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2018
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.20 cms
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Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyses 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 Colonus - in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus.
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 Colonus—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.
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.
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