Read e-book online Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' Phoenissae PDF

Drama

By Anna A. Lamari

ISBN-10: 3110245922

ISBN-13: 9783110245929

This publication applies the fundamental rules of narratology to an historic Greek tragedy, specifically Euripides?? Phoenissae. In a play with an extremely wealthy plot, a narratological examine yields fascinating interpretive effects concerning the use of delusion, narrators, narrative degrees, time and house, in addition to the relation of the Phoenissae with past remedies of the Theban legendary saga.

Show description

Read Online or Download Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' Phoenissae (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - Volume 6) PDF

Similar drama books

Read e-book online See Me PDF

See me simply as I see you . . .

Colin Hancock is giving his moment likelihood his most sensible shot. With a historical past of violence and undesirable judgements at the back of him and the specter of legal dogging his each step, he's decided to stroll a directly line. To Colin, that implies utilising himself single-mindedly towards his instructing measure and heading off every thing that proved damaging in his previous existence. Reminding himself day-by-day of his richly deserved classes, the very last thing he's trying to find is a major relationship.

Maria Sanchez, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants, is the image of traditional good fortune. With a level from Duke legislation institution and a role at a prestigious company in Wilmington, she is a dark-haired attractiveness with a likely faultless specialist tune list. And but Maria has a nerve-racking background of her personal, one who pressured her to come to her fatherland and left her wondering loads of what she as soon as believed.

A probability stumble upon on a rain-swept street will modify the process either Colin and Maria's lives, demanding deeply held assumptions approximately one another and eventually, themselves. As love all of sudden takes carry among them, they dare to check what a destiny jointly might be able to seem like . . . until eventually menacing reminders of occasions in Maria's previous start to surface.

As a chain of threatening incidents wreaks chaos in Maria's lifestyles, Maria and Colin could be validated in more and more terrifying methods. Will demons from their earlier break the tenuous dating they've began to construct, or will their love shield them, even within the darkest hour?

Rich in emotion and fueled with suspense, SEE ME reminds us that love is typically cast within the crises that threaten to shatter us . . . and that those that see us for who we really are would possibly not continually be those least difficult to acknowledge.

Get Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two, Fully Revised PDF

A vintage of worldwide literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama choked with satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not just the text’s diverse meter and rhyme but in addition its different tones and styles—dramatic and lyrical, reflective and farcical, pathetic and coarse, colloquial and hovering.

Download e-book for iPad: A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth by Cynthia Wall

This Concise spouse provides clean views on eighteenth-century literature and tradition. In a sequence of unique essays, it contributes to present debates within the box on matters as different because the public sphere, go back and forth and exploration, clinical rhetoric, gender and the ebook exchange, gardening, and historic as opposed to literary perceptions of existence on London streets.

Download e-book for iPad: Rivals & School for Scandal by A. M. I. Fiskin, Richard B. Sheridan

The comedian genius of Richard Brinsley Sheridan shines like a beacon within the competitors and the college for Scandal. those performs typify his skill to include hilarious fact and refined irony within the plots, characters, and language so universal in all his works.

Additional info for Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' Phoenissae (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - Volume 6)

Sample text

Given the nature of drama, embedded narratives must be spoken by an onstage character. With respect to the time of the story, embedded narratives usually provide temporal detours to the past or to the future. 119 That is, the agent of the focalization or narrative viewpoint. Focalizers serve as filters through which the events and participants of a narrative are perceived [de Jong, Nünlist & Bowie (2004) xvi], while ‘[f]ocalization denotes the perspectival restriction and orientation of narrative information relative to some- 22 Chapter 2: Retelling the past, shaping the future rators, being thus filtered through a multiplicity of perspectives.

In a play with a tendency of creating a panorama of the Theban mythical past, the distinction between the ‘nontemporal’ myth and the ‘temporal’ world of the play122 is stretched to its limits. By infusing almost every aspect of the Theban saga into the Phoenissae, Euripides adds to the play’s pathos, as he invites his audience to ‘see’ past, present and future events as belonging to a continuum of time. 1. The labyrinthine path of myth (Prologue, Phoenissae 1-201) The Phoenissae starts with a sonorous mythical outburst.

1-6 (TrGF); OC 1081-1084; E. Med. 1296-1298; Andr. 862; Hec. 1099-1106; HF 1157-1158; Ion 796-799, 1238-1243; Hel. 1478-1486; Phaeth. fr. 61-64 (TrGF)] and Mastronarde (1994) 196. 38 Chapter 2: Retelling the past, shaping the future Antigone will meet Polynices, but only after his death. Clasping the neck or embracing is, of course, a typical gesture pertaining to a meeting –or recognition scene, but Euripides may very well be playing with a rather stark patterning of this gesture as a sign of grief and lamentation.

Download PDF sample

Narrative, Intertext, and Space in Euripides' Phoenissae (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - Volume 6) by Anna A. Lamari


by Thomas
4.3

Rated 4.15 of 5 – based on 47 votes