Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy

Herausgeber: Hopman, Marianne Govers; Gagné, Renaud

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781316613566
• ISBN-10: 1316613569
• Artikelnr.: 44890062

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the chorus in the middle Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman;
2. Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs Claude Calame;
3. Chorus, conflict, closure in Aeschylus' Persians Marianne Hopman; 4.
Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia Jonas Grethlein; 5. Choreography:
the lyric voice of Sophoclean tragedy Simon Goldhill; 6. Conflicting
identities in the Euripidean chorus Laura Swift; 7. The choral plot of
Euripides' Helen Sheila Murnaghan; 8. Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in
Tauris and Athenian imperial economics Barbara Kowalzig; 9. Maenadism as
self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae Anton Bierl; 10. The
Delian maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in Classical drama
Gregory Nagy; 11. Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws Lucia Prauscello; 12.
The comic chorus and the demagogue Jeffrey Henderson; 13. Dancing letters:
the Alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias Renaud Gagné; 14. Choral dialectics:
Hölderlin and Hegel Joshua Billings; 15. Enter and exit the chorus: dance
in Britain, 1880-1914 Fiona Macintosh; 16. 'The thorniest problem and the
greatest opportunity': directors on directing the Greek chorus Peter
Meineck.