Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Acknowledgments 13
5. Abbreviations 15
6. I. GREEK TRAGEDY: MYTH AND STRUCTURE
7. 1. Greek Tragedy and Society: A Structuralist Perspective 21
8. 2. Greek Myth as a Semiotic and Structural System and the Problem of Tragedy 48
9. 3. Greek Tragedy: Writing, Truth, and the Representation of the Self 75
10. II. SOPHOCLES
11. 4. Visual Symbolism and Visual Effects in Sophocles 113
12. 5. Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone 137
13. III. EURIPIDES
14. 6. The Tragedy of the Hippolytus: The Waters of Ocean and the Untouched Meadow 165
15. 7. The Two Worlds of Euripides' Helen 222
16. 8. Pentheus and Hippolytus on the Couch and on the Grid: Psychoanalytic and Structuralist Readings of Greek Tragedy 268
17. 9. Euripides' Bacchae: The Language of the Self and the Language of the Mysteries 294
18. IV. TRANSFORMATIONS
19. 10. Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy 315
20. 11. Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays 337
21. 12. Literature and Interpretation: Conventions, History, and Universals 359
22. Index 377