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Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae" by Charles Segal

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Author: Charles Segal
Page Count: 440 pages
Published Date: 16 Nov 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Country: New Jersey, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780691015972
File size: 28 Mb
File Name: Dionysiac.Poetics.and.Euripides'.Bacchae..pdf
Download Link: Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
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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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