Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in <i>Alcestis, Hippolytus</i>, and <i>Hecuba</i>Duke University Press, 19 Οκτ 1993 - 328 σελίδες Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions into new forms. In place of the epic muse of martial glory, Euripides, Segal argues, evokes a muse of sorrows who transforms the suffering of individuals into a "common grief for all the citizens," a community of shared feeling in the theater. Like his predecessors in tragedy, Euripides believes death, more than any other event, exposes the deepest truth of human nature. Segal examines the revealing final moments in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, and discusses the playwright's use of these deaths--especially those of women--to question traditional values and the familiar definitions of male heroism. Focusing on gender, the affective dimension of tragedy, and ritual mourning and commemoration, Segal develops and extends his earlier work on Greek drama. The result deepens our understanding of Euripides' art and of tragedy itself. |
Περιεχόμενα
Introduction | 3 |
Euripides Muse of Sorrows and the Artifice | 13 |
Alcestis | 22 |
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Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in ... Charles Segal Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1993 |
Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in ... Charles Segal Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1993 |
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Achilles Admetus Aeschylus Agamemnon Alcestis ambiguous Antigone Aphrodite Apollo Artemis Athenian Athens audience Bacchae barbarian body burial choral chorus chorus's civic Clytaemnestra commemoration concealment contrast dead death divine dramatic emotional epic eros especially Euripides father female funeral gender goddess gods Greek grief Hades Hecuba Helen Heracles heroic heroism hidden Hippoly Hippolytus Homeric honor human Iliad Iphigeneia Iphigeneia in Tauris ironies justice language lines Loraux magic Male Tears marriage masculine Medea mortal motif mourning murderous Muse myth Neoptolemus nomos Notes to Chapter Nurse Odysseus Oedipus paradoxical passion Phaedra phrên pity play play's pleasure Poetics of Sorrow polis Polydorus Polymestor Polyxena prologue protagonist realm revenge rites role sacrifice scene Segal sexual shame silence song Sophocles space speech statue suffering Suppliants theater Theseus Thracian tion tomb Trachiniae traditional tragedy tragedy's tragic Troezen Trojan Women violence weeping woman words καὶ
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