Allegory and the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©1999
Allegories
xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm
9780847696086, 9780847696093, 0847696081, 084769609X
40862234
Chapter 1 Methodological Introduction Chapter 2 From End to Beginning: The Choral Allegory ofOedipus at Colonus Chapter 3 Suppliant Drama, Suppliant Space:Oedipus at Colonus and Aeschylus's Suppliants Chapter 4 Spectacular Religion: Oedipus at Colonus and Euripides' Bacchae Chapter 5 From Beginning to End: Choral Allegory inOedipus at Colonus
English text with selections of the original Greek