Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at ColonusThis 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. |
Contents
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Music and Dance Appendix | 26 |
Chapter 2 Narrative Past | 29 |
I The Hold of the Past on the Present | 30 |
Shaping the Future | 53 |
The Messenger | 130 |
The Lament | 147 |
Sophocles Antigone | 161 |
Chapter 5 Viewing Colonus | 167 |
The Athenian Colonus | 170 |
The Eleusinian Colonus | 197 |
Conclusion | 221 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Chapter 3 Narration and the Battle | 77 |
I Designing the Battle | 78 |
Narration and Prophecy | 100 |
III Narration and Concealment | 109 |
Chapter 4 Narration and Death | 115 |
Deferral and Secrecy | 116 |
II Praying for Death | 127 |
b Select Editions of Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus | 228 |
c Works Cited | 229 |
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