Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human SelvesCambridge University Press, 7 ביולי 2022 Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Where does the boundary between character and person lie? While the characters we encounter in texts are obviously not 'real' people, they still possess person-like qualities that stimulate our attention and engagement. How is this relationship formulated in contexts of theatrical performance, where characters are set in motion by actual people, actual bodies and voices? This book addresses such questions by focusing on issues of coherence, imitation, appearance and autonomous action. It argues for the plays' sophisticated treatment of character, their acknowledgement of its purely fictional ontology alongside deep – and often dark – appreciation of its quasi-human qualities. Seneca's Characters offers a fresh perspective on the playwright's powerful tragic aesthetics that will stimulate scholars and students alike. |
תוכן
Coherence | 23 |
Exemplarity | 99 |
Appearance | 181 |
Autonomy | 263 |
Afterword | 347 |
Index of Passages Discussed | 374 |
| 381 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves <span dir=ltr>Erica M. Bexley</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2022 |
Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves <span dir=ltr>Erica M. Bexley</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2022 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
achieve Achilles acknowledges action actor Agamemnon agency Amphitryon anagnorisis Andromache appearance Astyanax Atreus audience autarky autonomy avenger behaviour bodily body Boyle Braden Brutus Cato character characterisation Cicero claim coherence constantia context Creon crime death decorum deeds discussion dramatic dramatis personae emotional emphasises Epistle Euripides evokes example exemplarity exemplum extispicy face Fantham father fictional Fitch genre Hector Hercules Hippolytus identity imitation implied human individual instance interpret Jason likewise literary Littlewood 2004 Lycus Marcus Junius Brutus mask means Medea metapoetic metatheatrical moral motif narrative notae Oedipus one's paradigm passage performance person Phaed Phaedra physical physiognomic play play's poetic present Pyrrhus qualities quasi-human quod recognition scene relationship remarks resembles revenge role Roman sapiens Schiesaro 2003 selfhood Seneca's Seneca's Medea Senecan tragedy sense similar social specific stage status Stoic suicide Tarrant textual theatre theatrical theme Theseus Thyestes tion tradition Troades tyrant vengeance vultus καὶ