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Interpreting Greek tragedy : myth, poetry, text / Charles Segal.

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Main Author:	Segal, Charles, 1936-2002
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1986.
Subjects:	Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism. Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Table of Contents:

Greek tragedy and society
Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy
Greek tragedy
Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles
Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone
The tragedy of the Hippolytus
The two worlds of Euripides' Helen
Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid
Euripides' Bacchae
Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy
Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language
Literature and interpretation.