Human Misery and Forgiveness: Meaning and Structure in Euripides'Hippolytus
Boris Nikolsky
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Hardcover. Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate its power. Translator(s): Nikolsky, Mikhail. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DB; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 258 x 19. Weight in Grams: 556.
The tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for their sympathetic but unsentimental portrayal of assertive women. In this striking new monograph, Boris Nikolsky reinterprets a Euripidean tragedy which combines these qualities to the highest degree, the Hippolytus. Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate ... Read more
The tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for their sympathetic but unsentimental portrayal of assertive women. In this striking new monograph, Boris Nikolsky reinterprets a Euripidean tragedy which combines these qualities to the highest degree, the Hippolytus. Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910589038
SKU
V9781910589038
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99-50
About Boris Nikolsky
Boris Nikolsky is a graduate of Moscow State University and of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Since 1995 he has been teaching Classics at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and since 2013 is Principal Research Fellow at the School of Humanities of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. He has been ... Read more
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