Existentialism and Euripides - William Sale
sickness, tragedy and divinity in the Medea, the Hippolytus and the Bacchae
KORTE INHOUD
?This study, an effort to look at three plays of Euripides in terms of six fundamental concepts of existential psychoanalysis, is presented as a work of ?literary criticism and classical scholarship.? After a brief exposition in the first chapter of the basic ideas of existential analysis to be used in the study, the succeeding chapters are devoted to some of the characters in the three plays with the understanding that since the tenets of psychoanalytic theory ?have proved useful in understanding real people; should we not at least look at what it can tell us about the not-quitte real??(?) Sale argues his position clearly and with attention to the passages he selects. Such passages are cited in translation, which itself is, of necessity, an initial interpretation. When Greek is cited, it is unhappily (?) in a transliterated form; more disconcerting are the inaccuracies in references (?). If one has reservations about the psychoanalytic interpretation of literature it would be because, like the allegorical in...
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Berwick, 1977. III,142p. Paperback. Upper corner slightly bumped through and through. signature on free endpaper. Very few pen annotations. Else fine. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: SALE, W.,] [Uitgever: Aureal Publications] [Jaar: 1977] [Titel: Existentialism and Euripides. Sickness, Tragedy and Divinity in the Medea, the Hippolytus and the Bacchae.]
