Tragic Narrative

Zusatztext

<p>This study of Sophocles'<i>Oedipus at Colonus</i> 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.</p><p>For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles'<i>Oedipus at Colonus</i> 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.</p>

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<p><strong>Andreas Markantonatos,</strong> University of Crete.</p>

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