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In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' "Bacchae" builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
• Subtitle: Expanded Edition
• Author: Charles Segal
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440
• EAN: 9780691015972
• ISBN: 069101597X
• ID: 04639387
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 612 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 157 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. October 1997

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