Chronos on the Threshold - Time, Ritual, and Agency in the Oresteia

Informationen zum Autor Marcel Andrew Widzisz has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Exeter University, the University of Houston, Boston University, Rice University, and St. John's College in Annapolis. Klappentext This book provides new views of longstanding structural questions in the Oresteia, of its repeated language for time, and of its rich ritual constructions. Its wider appeal may well lie in being thoroughly multidisciplinary, in repeatedly finding inspiration in current anthropological work of time, ritual, and agency. Zusammenfassung This book provides new views of longstanding structural questions in the Oresteia! of its repeated language for time! and of its rich ritual constructions. Its wider appeal may well lie in being thoroughly multidisciplinary! in repeatedly finding inspiration in current anthropological work of time! ritual! and agency. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: AgamemnonChapter 3: ChoephoroiChapter 4: EumenidesEpilogue

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Widzisz, Widzisz Marcel
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739170458
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7045-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights