Karen Marie Moning Books

Kamis, 26 Mei 1994

In Spite of Innocence

The stories of some 400 innocent Americans who were falsely convicted of capital crimes.

ISBN: 1555531970

Author: Michael L. Radelet

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Rating: 4.29

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Jumat, 01 April 1994

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The mark of success in a poet's career, writes David Slavitt, was an epic that might stand on the shelf alongside Virgil's. But how was a poet like Ovid, with a more intimate, livelier, funnier and more self-mocking sensibility, to attempt such a thing? The epic form was not, I think, immediately congenital, and my guess is that Ovid recognized this himself. Accordingly, he transformed the epic, playing against its grain a lot of the time, and escaping its severe organizational and thematic demands by transforming it into something altogether different. The first metamorphosis, then, is of the idea of the epic itself.

ISBN: 0801847982

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Rating: 4.01

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Selasa, 01 Maret 1994

Pindar s Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past

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Pindar s Homer: The Lyric Possession of An Epic Past

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

ISBN: 0801848474

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Rating: 4.62

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Sabtu, 01 Januari 1994

Amazing Rain Forest (Discovering the Rain Forest)

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Amazing Rain Forest (Discovering the Rain Forest)

Introduces the idea that people affect the environment.

ISBN: 0865933928

Author: Lynn M. Stone

Publisher: Rourke Publishing (FL)

Rating: 4.33

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Selasa, 19 Oktober 1993

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba

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Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba

Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.
Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions into new forms. In place of the epic muse of martial glory, Euripides, Segal argues, evokes a muse of sorrows who transforms the suffering of individuals into a "common grief for all the citizens," a community of shared feeling in the theater.
Like his predecessors in tragedy, Euripides believes death, more than any other event, exposes the deepest truth of human nature. Segal examines the revealing final moments in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, and discusses the playwright's use of these deaths--especially those of women--to question traditional values and the familiar definitions of male heroism. Focusing on gender, the affective dimension of tragedy, and ritual mourning and commemoration, Segal develops and extends his earlier work on Greek drama. The result deepens our understanding of Euripides' art and of tragedy itself.

ISBN: 082231360X

Author: Charles Segal

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Rating: 4.50

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