The Art of Euripides. Dramatic Technique and Social Context. - MASTRONARDE, D.J.,
Dramatic Technique and Social Context
KORTE INHOUD
?According to Richard Buxton (?Persuasion in Greek Tragedy?), ?Euripides is a dramatist of bewildering variety and puzzling contradictoriness. Far more than Aischylos or Sophokles, he defies reduction to a simple formula.? Mastronarde?s splendid new book shows that its author is not only fully aware of of this perceived difference between Euripides and his fellow tragic poets, but is sensitive to the reasons for the perception. (?) The opening chapter is taken up with an overview of the reception of Euripides? plays, beginning with his contemporary Aristophanes and culminating with an excellent and well-balanced outline of trends in Euripidean criticism since the mid-twentieth century (14-25), as well as a brief statement of the book?s ?approaches and scope? (25-28). Mastronarde?s approach is ?eclectic, flexible, and wary if totalizing interpretations? (25), like the work of Euripides himself, Mastronarde's book is 'exploratory and aporetic'. (viii). (?) Typical of Mastronarde?s undogmatic method are chapters...
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2015Uitgever: Cambridge University Press376 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1107646618ISBN-13: 9781107646612Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge, 2015. 1st paperback ed. XIII,361p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: MASTRONARDE, D.J.,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2015] [Titel: The Art of Euripides. Dramatic Technique and Social Context.]
