Author: Arthur Woollgar VerrallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Euripides, the Rationalist
Author: Arthur Woollgar VerrallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Rationalist Criticism of Greek Tragedy
Author: James E. FordPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739112199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Literary critical revolutions-radical shifts in interpretation and evaluation of literary works and their authors-are among the most interesting of cultural phenomena. In order to gain greater understanding of the mechanisms of all critical revolutions, Rationalist Criticism in Greek Tragedy examines the late nineteenth-century 'rehabilitation' of Euripides. Some of the factors which contributed to the Euripidean revolution are well known, but one which is not-one which has been generally forgotten, when it has not actually been denied-is the role of Rationalist Criticism. Rationalist Criticism, founded and dominated by infamous Cambridge University Classicist and English scholar A. W. Verrall, was generally deprecated by mainstream classicists when it first appeared, and those who happen to come upon it today tend to treat it dismissively-a tendency the great classicist Eduard Fraenkel thought 'should be strongly resisted.' The influence of Rationalist Criticism-inside and outside of classical studies-has been much greater than has been generally supposed. James E. Ford makes the case for the larger significance of what Verrall and the Rationalist Critics were doing within the history not just of Euripidean criticism but of literary studies generally. Ford reads the rationalists on their own terms, drawing on the disciplines of the history of scholarship and the history and theory of literary criticism making this study unique. It should appeal to anyone interested in intellectual history, especially instances of significant intellectual changes (a la Kuhnian revolutions), and, especially, changes in the interpretation and evaluation of authors and their works. The work should be of specific interest to classicists, academic historians, and critical theorists.
Euripides, the Rationalist
Author: Arthur Woollgar VerrallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Euripides
Author: Arthur Woollgar VerrallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Euripides
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Euripides the Rationalist
Author: Arthur Woollgar VerrallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Euripides
Author: Isabelle TorrancePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such resonance in the modern day. In this concise introduction, Isabelle Torrance engages with the thematic, cultural and scholarly difficulties that surround his plays to demonstrate why Euripides remains a figure of perennial relevance. Addressing here issues of social context, performance theory, fifth-century philosophy and religion, textual criticism and reception, the author presents an astute and attractively-written guide to the Euripidean corpus – from the widely read and celebrated Medea to the lesser-known and deeply ambiguous Alcestis.
Euripides
Author: A. W. VerrallEuripides' Escape-Tragedies
Author: Matthew WrightPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199274517
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Table of contents
Tragedy's End
Author: Francis M. DunnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344774
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimentation in plot and ending reinforce one another in Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Heracles. Part Three argues that in three late plays, Helen, Orestes, and Phoenician Women, Euripides devises radically new and untragic ways of representing and understanding human experience. Tragedy's End is the first comprehensive study of closure in classical literature, and will be of interest to a range of students and scholars.
American Journal of Philology
Author: Basil Lanneau GildersleevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."