TY - BOOK AU - Segal,Charles TI - Interpreting Greek tragedy: myth, poetry, text SN - 0-8014-1890-9 (alk. paper) U1 - 882/.01/09 19 PY - 1986/// CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - Greek drama (Tragedy) KW - History and criticism KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature N1 - Essays published over a period of twenty years; Includes bibliographical references and index; Greek tragedy and society -- Greek myth as a semiotic and structural system and the problem of tragedy -- Greek tragedy -- Visual symbolism and visual effects in Sophocles -- Sophocles' praise of man and the conflicts of the Antigone -- The tragedy of the Hippolytus -- The two worlds of Euripides' Helen -- Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid -- Euripides' Bacchae -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy -- Tragedy, corporeality, and the texture of language -- Literature and interpretation ER -