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Narrative Setting and Dramatic Poetry
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M. Kuntz
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
1993
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This volume evaluates a single element of tragic art, namely the way in which narrative descriptions of place participate in the poetry of tragedy. They join together structures of the theater to create a context for tragic performance, and ultimately reflect upon tragedy's connection to earlier narrative forms and to the traditional tales that regularly supply tragic plots.
The first part of this book examines the introductory function of spatial descriptions and the peculiar resources offered to the playwright by cult settings. In the second part, the spatial oppositions, that are inherent structuring devices in traditional tales, are taken up in chapters treating the motif of exile in extant tragedy.
The first part of this book examines the introductory function of spatial descriptions and the peculiar resources offered to the playwright by cult settings. In the second part, the spatial oppositions, that are inherent structuring devices in traditional tales, are taken up in chapters treating the motif of exile in extant tragedy.
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Mary Kuntz, Ph.D. (1985) in Classical Languages and Literature, Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
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July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004329201
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Main content:
178
eBook ISBN:
9789004329201
Audience(s) for this book
Classical philologists and all those interested in Greek tragedy, ancient drama and Greek literary history. Specialists in drama, its history and theory.
