Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy. - GAGNÉ, R., and M. GOVERS HOPMAN, (eds.),
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'Multiple, multifarious, shifting, of many voices and one, authorial and spectator, attentive and vocal, omnipresent and kinetic: the dramatic chorus is an ineluctable draw for contemporary interpreters of ancient Greek drama. Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman and part-product of a conference at Northwestern in 2009, offers a new wealth of kaleidoscopic readings on this so-called mediator. We are given the term ?choral mediation? and told by Gagné and Hopman that it ?encompass[es] all the mimetic transfers that allow different levels of reference to interact and complete each other? (2). So this is a theory not about a particular form of meaning but about the interstices between forms of meaning; it is capacious, almost infinitely so, although also exclusive in its way. In reading the chorus as a translator between various practices and representations, this method largely omits interpretations that advance the chorus as an aesthetic experience in and of its...
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2016Uitgever: Cambridge University Press440 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1316613569ISBN-13: 9781316613566Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 2016. 1st paperback ed. IX,429p. Paperback.New Titel: Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy. Auteur: GAGNÉ, R., and M. GOVERS HOPMAN, (eds.),
'Multiple, multifarious, shifting, of many voices and one, authorial and spectator, attentive and vocal, omnipresent and kinetic: the dramatic chorus is an ineluctable draw for contemporary interpreters of ancient Greek drama. Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman and part-product of a conference at Northwestern i...
'Multiple, multifarious, shifting, of many voices and one, authorial and spectator, attentive and vocal, omnipresent and kinetic: the dramatic chorus is an ineluctable draw for contemporary interpreters of ancient Greek drama. Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, edited by Renaud Gagné and Marianne Govers Hopman and part-product of a conference at Northwestern i...
