Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
By (author): "Charles Segal"
Publish Date:
January 1st 1982
ISBN069101597X
ISBN139780691015972
AsinDionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae
Original titleDionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae"
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.