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History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama
University of Texas Press, 1995 Cloth: 978-0-292-72779-3 | Paper: 978-0-292-72865-3 Library of Congress Classification PA3131.H57 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 882.010926
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike. The book includes essays by seven of the foremost scholars of Greek drama—Helene Foley, Michelle Gellrich, Peter W. Rose, David Rosenbloom, Richard Seaford, Bernd Seidensticker, and Froma I. Zeitlin. These writers explore the work of all three great tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and approach them from a variety of perspectives on history and theory, including poststructuralism and Marxism. They investigate the possibilities for coordinating theoretically informed readings of tragedy with a renewed attention to the pressure of material history within those texts. The collection thus represents a response within classics to "New Historicism" and the debates it has generated within related literary disciplines. See other books on: Athens | Athens (Greece) | Dialogues | Literature and history | Theory, etc See other titles from University of Texas Press |
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History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
University of Texas Press, 1995
Cloth: 978-0-292-72779-3
Paper: 978-0-292-72865-3
Cloth: 978-0-292-72779-3
Paper: 978-0-292-72865-3
Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike.
The book includes essays by seven of the foremost scholars of Greek drama—Helene Foley, Michelle Gellrich, Peter W. Rose, David Rosenbloom, Richard Seaford, Bernd Seidensticker, and Froma I. Zeitlin. These writers explore the work of all three great tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and approach them from a variety of perspectives on history and theory, including poststructuralism and Marxism. They investigate the possibilities for coordinating theoretically informed readings of tragedy with a renewed attention to the pressure of material history within those texts. The collection thus represents a response within classics to "New Historicism" and the debates it has generated within related literary disciplines.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
