Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

By Andreas Markantonatos

This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole.

For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus is presented as a uniquely rich text, which deftly uses the figure and history of the blind Oedipus to explore and thematize some of the basic narratological concerns of Greek tragedy: the relation between the narrow here-and-now of visible stage action and the many off-stage worlds that have to be mediated into it through narrative, including the past, the future, other dramatizations of the myth, and the world of the fifth-century audience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110174014
• ISBN13: 9783110174014
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary