Roger Travis

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Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at ColonusHardcover, 10 June 1999

Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
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Part of Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Part of Series
Greek Studies
Print Length
256 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date Published
10 Jun 1999
ISBN-10
0847696081
ISBN-13
9780847696086

Description

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 Euripides' Bacchea further explore the chorus's role in expressing the relation of the individual to the maternal body. Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. The introduction provides a useful survey of the advantages and disadvantages of various psychological approaches to tragedy, making this an important volume for students and scholars alike.

Product Details

Author:
Roger Travis
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
10 June 1999
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0847696081
ISBN-13:
9780847696086
Language:
English
Location:
Lanham, MD
Pages:
256
Weight:
521.63 gm

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