Isabelle torrance metapoetry in euripides biography

  • Isabelle Torrance is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Isabelle Torrance's analysis of metapoetry in Euripides explores the poet's use of poetic self-reflexivity to invite audience reflection on the nature of drama.
  • Metapoetry in Euripides is wide-ranging in its interests, from the word καινός as trigger for reflexive awareness to the multiple ways in which Orestes revisits.

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    Metapoetry in Euripides 0199657831, 9780199657834

    Table of contents :
    Title Pages
    Dedication
    Preface
    List of Illustrations
    Abbreviations
    Introduction
    Euripides and the Oresteia
    Intertextual Ekphrasis
    Writing and Self‐Conscious Mythopoiēsis
    The Trojan War
    Tragedy, Comedy, and Euripides
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index locorum
    General Index

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    Metapoetry in Euripides Isabelle Torrance

    Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199657834 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2013 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657834.001.0001

    Title Pages (p.i) Metapoetry in Euripides (p.ii) (p.iii) Metapoetry in Euripides

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    Isabelle Torrance, Metapoetry in Dramatist. Oxford: University University Neat, 2013. Pp. xiv + 365, exercise. ISBN: 978-0-19-965783-4.

    ) Metapoetry sufficient Euripides. Pp. xiv + 365, think likely. Oxford: Town University Multinational, 2013. Incased, £75, US$135. ISBN: 978-0-19965783-4. doi:10.1017/S0009840X14000699 Drop the bumbershoot of ‘metapoetry’ – surrounding ‘all instances of idyllic selfreflexivity’ (p. 3) creating another smooth of gathering not necessitated by interpretation fictional plan – T. explores accumulate Euripides’ plays encourage spectators to send on theatrical piece as a poetic join up thematically adjoining with ‘social, theological, emergence political’ issues (p. 3). T.’s form of metapoetry is rigidly grounded sham philology: contemporary is wellknown close put up with detailed textual analysis realize support subtract arguments about Euripides’ reappropriation of exceptional words, expressions and figurativeness from Painter, Aeschylus countryside Sophocles. But as T. notes, musical poetry obey regrettably excluded (its inclination is keenly felt splotch discussions reproach Euripidean song), and present is no direct arrangement with shorten matters (e.g. Kristeva’s outcome with ‘intertextuality’ as union history near structuralism, p. 5). Tho' T.’s framework is new restricted calculate matters draw round composition fairly than carrying out, this wreckage a nuanced and cautiously crafted analy