Catastrophe Survived: Euripides' Plays of Mixed Reversal
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Dust jacket has moderate surface and edge wear, upper left corner has a 1.25" tear, spine is sunned, price has been clipped, just good. Blue cloth boards have just the slightest rubbing at the ext...
Dust jacket has moderate surface and edge wear, upper left corner has a 1.25" tear, spine is sunned, price has been clipped, just good. Blue cloth boards have just the slightest rubbing at the extremities. Clean interior. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011
From Publisher:
Examining the seven Euripidean tragicomdeies, this book contends that the plays' plots--compounded as they are of the opposite elements of good fortune and catastrophe--result from experimentation with a new form intended to express a characteristically Euripidean view of reality. The plays involve people scaled for comedy trying to live in a world ruled by the gods of tragedy, making efforts sometimes noble, sometimes sordid, but in the end, essentially futile. Burnett shows how Euripides manipulates tradtional scenes, diverting and frustrating the expectations aroused in his audience and transforming their simple pity and terror into a response that is conscious, complex, and inescapably disturbing.Product Info
ISBN: 0198141866
ISBN-13: 9780198141860
Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year: 1971-01-01
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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