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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.

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Travis pursues this quasi-psychoanalytic reading of the Oedipal allegory in a rigorous and uncompromising way. * Religious Studies Review *

Table of Contents
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

Allegory and the Tragic Chorus in Sophocles

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/08/1999
      ISBN13: 9780847696086, 978-0847696086
      ISBN10: 0847696081

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      Travis pursues this quasi-psychoanalytic reading of the Oedipal allegory in a rigorous and uncompromising way. * Religious Studies Review *

      Table of Contents
      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

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