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Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus"
Roger Travis
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Paperback. This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus, which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the Athenian audience. The play relates Oedipus allegorically to the audience through the tragic chorus and transforms Oedipus' relation to the body of his mother Jocasta into a new relation to the land of Attica. Corresponding readings of Aeschylus' Suppliants and ... Read more
In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus, which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the Athenian audience. The play relates Oedipus allegorically to the audience through the tragic chorus and transforms Oedipus' relation to the body of his mother Jocasta into a new relation to the land of Attica. Corresponding readings of Aeschylus' Suppliants and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847696093
SKU
V9780847696093
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About Roger Travis
Roger Travis is assistant professor of Classics at the University of Connecticut.
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Travis pursues this quasi-psychoanalytic reading of the Oedipal allegory in a rigorous and uncompromising way.
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