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Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae: Expanded Edition

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae: Expanded Edition

Segal, Charles

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ISBN10: 069101597X
ISBN13: 9780691015972
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Nov 16 1997
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

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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