Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Tragedy and Civilization Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery...
Full description- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Published: 31 December 1999
- Format: Paperback 528 pages
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- Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
- ISBN 13: 9780806131368 ISBN 10: 0806131365
- Sales rank: 1,116,295
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Full description for Tragedy and Civilization
Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery and chaotic violence, both within society and within the individual. Tragedy and Civilization begins with a study of these themes and then proceeds to detailed discussions of each of the seven plays. For this edition Segal also provides a new preface discussing recent developments in the study of Sophocles.
