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Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Markantonatos, Andreas

Hardcover

Series: Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte, Book 63

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralPlays

ISBN10: 3110174014
ISBN13: 9783110174014
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jul 30 2002
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole.

For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus is presented as a uniquely rich text, which deftly uses the figure and history of the blind Oedipus to explore and thematize some of the basic narratological concerns of Greek tragedy: the relation between the narrow here-and-now of visible stage action and the many off-stage worlds that have to be mediated into it through narrative, including the past, the future, other dramatizations of the myth, and the world of the fifth-century audience.

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