Narrative setting and dramatic poetry / / by Mary Kuntz.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 124
• Author: Kuntz, Mary.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Yale), presented in 1985 under the title, Setting and theme in Greek tragedy.

This volume evaluates a single element of tragic art, namely the way in which narrative descriptions of place participate in the poetry of tragedy. They join together structures of the theater to create a context for tragic performance, and ultimately reflect upon tragedy's connection to earlier narrative forms and to the traditional tales that regularly supply tragic plots. The first part of this book examines the introductory function of spatial descriptions and the peculiar resources offered to the playwright by cult settings. In the second part, the spatial oppositions, that are inherent structuring devices in traditional tales, are taken up in chapters treating the motif of exile in extant tragedy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Mary Kuntz -- Introduction / Mary Kuntz -- The Introductory Function of Setting / Mary Kuntz -- Narrative Setting and Euripidesʼ Ion / Mary Kuntz -- Supplication and Cult / Mary Kuntz -- Hero, Home and Wife / Mary Kuntz -- Women, Home and Exile / Mary Kuntz -- Three Who Would Not Come Home / Mary Kuntz -- A Place Apart / Mary Kuntz -- The Physical Representation of Setting in the Fifth-Century Theater an Overview / Mary Kuntz -- Select Bibliography / Mary Kuntz -- General Index / Mary Kuntz -- Index Locorum / Mary Kuntz -- Supplements to Mnemosyne.