Tragic Narrative

A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

von Andreas Markantonatos

310 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole. For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus is presented as a uniquely rich text, which deftly uses the figure and history of the blind Oedipus to explore and thematize some of the basic narratological concerns of Greek tragedy: the relation between the narrow here-and-now of visible stage action and the many off-stage worlds that have to be mediated into it through narrative, including the past, the future, other dramatizations of the myth, and the world of the fifth-century audience.

• Reihe: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• ISBN: 9783110174014
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2002
• Genre: Geschichte/Altertum
• Verlag: De Gruyter