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Title: Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics
Description: Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, (2001). orig.boards. 24x15cm, ix,238 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Metatheater: Three Phenomenal Modes: Drama & Metafiction; Figures of Play: Surface Play & the Mise en Abyme; The Comic Contrafact; The Anatomy of Dramatic Fiction: Tragic Madness: Aias: Sophokles' Aias, Madness & the Show Within; Pentheus: Euripides' Bakkhai as a Contest of Fictions; The Anatomy of Dramatic Fiction: Comic Utopia: Bellerophontes: Euripides' Bellerophontes & Aristophanes Peace; Tereus: Sophokles' Tereus &Aristophanes' Birds; Herakles: Euripides' Peirithous & Aristophanes' Frogs; Conclusion.

Keywords: Classical Philology, Ancient Greece, Greek Drama, Literature, Literary Criticism, Aesthetics, Poetics, Euripides, Aristophanes

Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS011755I