Choral mediations in Greek tragedy / edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman.
| Other author | Gagné, Renaud, 1976- |
| Other author | Hopman, Marianne Govers, 1974- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. |
| Description | ix, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The chorus in the middle / Renaud Gagné and Marianne Hopman -- Choral polyphony and the ritual functions of tragic songs / Claude Calame -- Chorus, conflict and closure in Aeschylus' Persians / Marianne Hopman -- Choral intertemporality in the Oresteia / Jonas Grethlein -- Choreography: the lyric voice of Sophoclean Tragedy / Simon Goldhill -- Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus / Laura A. Swift -- The choral plot of Euripides' Helen / Sheila Murnaghan -- Transcultural chorality: Iphigenia in Tauris and Athenian imperial economics in a polytheistic world / Barbara Kowalzig -- Maenadism as self-referential chorality in Euripides' Bacchae / Anton Bierl -- The Delian Maidens and their relevance to choral mimesis in classical drama / Gregory Nagy -- Choral persuasions in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello -- The comic chorus and the demagogue / Jeffrey Henderson -- Dancing letters: the alphabetic Tragedy of Kallias / Renaud Gagné -- Choral dialectics: Hölderlin and Hegel / Joshua Billings -- Enter and exit the chorus: dance in Britain 1880 -- 1914 / Fiona Macintosh -- "The thorniest problem and the greatest opportunity": directors on directing the Greek chorus / Peter Meineck. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-423) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012045649 |
| ISBN | 9781107033283 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1107033284 (hardback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PA3136 .C484 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |