EAN: 9783110245929

NARRATIVE INTERTEXT AND SPACE IN EURIPIDES PHOE...

Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are
interwoven by means of various anachronies  focalizers offer different and often challenging
points of view  while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against
which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a
critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and drama  this
book uses the former as a working tool for the study and interpretation of the latter. The
Phoenissae is approached as a coherent narrative unit and issues like the use of myth 
narrators  intertext  time and space are discussed in detail. It is within these contexts that
the play is seen as a Theban mythical thesaurus' both exploring previous mythical ramifications
and making new additions. The result is rewarding: Euripides constructs a handbook of the
Theban saga that was informative for those mythically untrained  fascinating for those
theatrically demanding  but also dexterously open upon each one's reception.

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