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  1. Prophesying Tragedy
    Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays
    Published: [2019]; © 1988
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts... more

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    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens

     

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    ISBN: 9781501745584
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature; Prophecies in literature; Tragedy; Thebanischer Sagenkreis; Schicksal; Weissagung; Prophetie; Tragödie
    Other subjects: Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.); Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Oedipus Coloneus; Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Oedipus tyrannus; Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Antigone
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  2. Prophesying Tragedy
    Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays
    Published: [1988]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts... more

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    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens.

     

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    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p.)
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  3. Prophesying Tragedy
    Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration -- Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs -- Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone -- Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration -- Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs -- Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone -- Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the King -- Chapter 5. The Heroic Prophet: Oedipus at Co/onus -- Epilogue: Euripides and the Erasure of Prophecy -- Index Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9781501745584
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    Subjects: Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature; Prophecies in literature; Tragedy; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
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  4. Prophesying Tragedy
    Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays
    Published: [2019]; © 1988
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts... more

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    Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501745584
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature; Prophecies in literature; Tragedy; Thebanischer Sagenkreis; Schicksal; Weissagung; Prophetie; Tragödie
    Other subjects: Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.); Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Oedipus Coloneus; Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Oedipus tyrannus; Sophocles (ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr.): Antigone
    Scope: 1 online resource (168 pages)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

  5. Prophesying Tragedy
    Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration -- Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs -- Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone -- Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliteration -- Chapter 1. The Voice of Prophecy -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Signs -- Chapter 3. Speech and Authority: Antigone -- Chapter 4. Speech and Silence: Oedipus the King -- Chapter 5. The Heroic Prophet: Oedipus at Co/onus -- Epilogue: Euripides and the Erasure of Prophecy -- Index Prophesying Tragedy investigates the political and epistemological dimensions of the conflict between heroes and prophets in homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus. Rebecca Weld Bushnell asserts that an understanding of tragic fate, as represented in prophecy, can be achieved through an awareness of the historical relationship of tragedy to culture and politics, for the tragic hero's interpretation and defiance of prophecy both reflected and influenced the political abuse of oracles and omens

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781501745584
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    Subjects: Antigone (Greek mythology) in literature; Prophecies in literature; Tragedy; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (168 p)
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