Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
by Charles Segal
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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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Bacchantes in literature, Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature, Tragedy, Pentheus (Greek mythology) in literature, Classical literature, translations into english, In literature, Bacchantes dans la littérature, Tragédie, Tragedies, Literature, Bacchae (Euripides), Gesproken interpretaties, Dans l'art, Dans la littératurePeople
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Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae"
October 27, 1997, Princeton University Press
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Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae: expanded edition, with a new afterword by the author
1997, Princeton University Press
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- Expanded edition with a new afterword by the author
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Dionysiac Poetics & Euripides' Bacchae
January 1990, Books on Demand
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Dionysiac poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
1982, Princeton University Press
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Bibliography: p. [348]-356.
Includes index.
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"Nietzsche's basic insight about Greek tragedy, despite exaggeration, contains much truth."
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Includes afterword (p.349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of Recent Scholarship
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