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Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae : Expanded Edition / Charles Segal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1982Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691223988
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Elusive God -- 2 Forms of Dionysus: Doubling, Hunting, Rituals -- 3 Dionysus and Civilization: Tools, Agriculture, Music -- 4 The Horizontal Axis: House, City, Mountain -- 5 The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire -- 6 Arms and the Man: Sex Roles and Rites of Passage -- 7 Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation -- 8 The Crisis of Symbols: Language, Myth, Tragedy -- 9 Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy -- Afterword. Dionysus and the Bacchae in the Light of Recent Scholarship -- Selected Bibliography -- Bibliographical Addenda (1997) -- Index
Summary: In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Elusive God -- 2 Forms of Dionysus: Doubling, Hunting, Rituals -- 3 Dionysus and Civilization: Tools, Agriculture, Music -- 4 The Horizontal Axis: House, City, Mountain -- 5 The Vertical Axis: Earth, Air, Water, Fire -- 6 Arms and the Man: Sex Roles and Rites of Passage -- 7 Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation -- 8 The Crisis of Symbols: Language, Myth, Tragedy -- 9 Dionysiac Poetics and Euripidean Tragedy -- Afterword. Dionysus and the Bacchae in the Light of Recent Scholarship -- Selected Bibliography -- Bibliographical Addenda (1997) -- Index

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In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.

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In English.

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