Segal, Charles, 1936-

Interpreting Greek Tragedy Myth, Poetry, Text / Charles Segal. - 1 online resource (384 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Essays published over a period of twenty years.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greek tragedy and society -- Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy -- Greek tragedy -- Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles -- Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone -- The tragedy of the Hippolytus -- The two worlds of Euripides' Helen -- Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid -- Euripides' Bacchae -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy -- Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language -- Literature and interpretation.

Open Access

9781501746703




Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PA3131 / .S44 1986

882/.01/09