Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781107033283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 440 str.

Renaud Gagne

Opis

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

Recenzje

'This excellent volume occupies a distinctive place within the growing body of scholarship on the Greek chorus. It will be of great interest to scholars working on Greek tragedy and on ancient performance culture more broadly.' Lauren Curtis, The Classical Journal

Spis treści

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.