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

"Several interconnected themes unify this book. One is Euripides's mixture of 'mythic' elements with 'realistic' and ratiocinative ones, which produces new forms of tragic discourse. Another is Euripides's deconstruction of such comfortable oppositions as male/female and Greek/barbarian, which dissolves the barriers between actor and audience, self and 'other.' Segal develops his argument with great lucidity, patient reference to the text, broad and informed acknowledgment of the work of others, and an admirable ability to make connections between literary aperÇus and the history of ideas."-Peter Burian, Duke UniversitySegal, Charles is the author of 'Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba' with ISBN 9780822313601 and ISBN 082231360X.