Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyzes the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them?Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus?in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus. Exploring the playwright's dramatic technique, she shows how he used elements of ritual to guide the perceptions and expectations of his fifth-century audience about plot and character.
Employing both modern ritual theory and Aristotle's Poetics, Brook exposes the deep structural analogies between ritual and narrative, the parallels between mistakes in ritual and deviations from the expected in the plot, and the relationship between ritual content and dramatic closure.
| ISBN: | 9780299313807 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2018 |
| Author: | Adriana E Brook |
| Publisher: | The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Wisconsin Studies in Classics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient history Ancient religions and Mythologies |
Presenting an innovative new reading of Sophocles' plays, Tragic Rites analyzes the poetic and narrative function of ritual in the seven extant plays of Sophocles. Adriana Brook closely examines four of them?Ajax, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus?in the context of her wide-ranging consideration of the entire Sophoclean corpus. Exploring the playwright's dramatic technique, she shows how he used elements of ritual to guide the perceptions and expectations of his fifth-century audience about plot and character.
Employing both modern ritual theory and Aristotle's Poetics, Brook exposes the deep structural analogies between ritual and narrative, the parallels between mistakes in ritual and deviations from the expected in the plot, and the relationship between ritual content and dramatic closure.
Tragic Rites features in the following genres: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient history, Ancient religions and Mythologies
Tragic Rites is available in Hardback
Tragic Rites was written by Adriana E Brook and published by The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press
Tragic Rites has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Wisconsin Studies in Classics series
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