Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy

Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy
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Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 0199267618
ISBN-13 : 9780199267613
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Book Synopsis Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy by : Cedric A. J. Littlewood

Download or read book Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy written by Cedric A. J. Littlewood and published by Oxford Classical Monographs. This book was released on 2004 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethical context is a productive frame of reference for interpreting the strange artificiality of Senecan tragedy, the consciousness that its own dramatic worlds, events, and people are literary constructs. In Troades for example Achilles' ghost and its vengeance is represented both as an inexorable dramatic reality and the creature of a fabula to be dismissed as a malignant fiction."--BOOK JACKET.


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