Isabelle Torrance
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5627404 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Isabelle Torrance |
| NOMBRES | Isabelle |
| APELLIDO | Torrance |
| FIRMA | TORRANCE I |
| AFILIACIONES | Aarhus University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016
This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, was almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation’s history and an event that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish p…
Euripides
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such reson…
Aeschylus and War
Distorted Oaths in Aeschylus
This paper argues that Aeschylus systematically distorts normative ritual paradigms of oath-taking for dramatic purposes. Oaths in Aeschylus tend to be conspiratorial and/or political in nature. In the Oresteia, conspiratorial oaths will conform to the general pattern evident throughout the trilogy where perverted or inverted images in Agamemnon become ambivalent in Libation Bearers and are restored to their auspicious context in Eumenides. Polit…
Metapoetry In Euripides
Euripides and the Oresteia
This chapter examines Euripides’ Electra, Iphigenia among the Taurians, and Orestes and argues that the intertextual allusions to the Oresteia in these plays form part of a network of metapoetic devices, including also metaphor, aetiology, and language of plot construction and novelty. The function of this network, it is argued, is to draw attention to Euripidean innovations in plot, location, and character, and to underline Euripides’ responses …
Conclusion
The Conclusion draws together the main arguments of the book through reference to an Aristophanic joke about Euripidean tone. The suggestion that Euripides implicitly invites the audience to interpret his metapoetic games is framed within the context of the Athenian love of riddles and the dramatists’ hopes for intelligent spectators.
Writing and Self‐Conscious Mythopoiēsis
This chapter compares the motif of writing in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and argues that Euripides exploits writing in an entirely new way. It is argued that Euripides associates writing metapoetically with plot construction and authorial control in his plays, through references to written texts and letters used as plot devices, often in conjunction with the term mythos, meaning ‘fiction’. The plays discussed include Palame…
In the Footprints of Aeschylus
It is well known that Euripides responds to Aeschylus in several of his plays, most notably in Electra . In this article I suggest a new reading of the recognition scene in Euripides' Electra , comparing also the recognition sequence in Iphigenia among the Taurians , which alludes to the same Aeschylean model. I argue that through their allusions to Aeschylus, both scenes can be read as metapoetic reflections on the constraints and conventions of…
On Your Head Be It Sworn
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The Princess's Gruesome Death and Medea 1079
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Euripides
"Heracles" and Euripidean Tragedy
Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of …
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
"Heracles" and Euripidean Tragedy
Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of …
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
In the Footprints of Aeschylus
It is well known that Euripides responds to Aeschylus in several of his plays, most notably in Electra . In this article I suggest a new reading of the recognition scene in Euripides' Electra , comparing also the recognition sequence in Iphigenia among the Taurians , which alludes to the same Aeschylean model. I argue that through their allusions to Aeschylus, both scenes can be read as metapoetic reflections on the constraints and conventions of…
On Your Head Be It Sworn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Surviving Greek Tragedy
Surviving Greek Tragedy is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors, readers, scholars, schoolteachers, monks, publishers, translators, theatre directors, and so on. Over the course of t…
Euripides
"Heracles" and Euripidean Tragedy
Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of …
The Princess's Gruesome Death and Medea 1079
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Your Head Be It Sworn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
In the Footprints of Aeschylus
It is well known that Euripides responds to Aeschylus in several of his plays, most notably in Electra . In this article I suggest a new reading of the recognition scene in Euripides' Electra , comparing also the recognition sequence in Iphigenia among the Taurians , which alludes to the same Aeschylean model. I argue that through their allusions to Aeschylus, both scenes can be read as metapoetic reflections on the constraints and conventions of…
Metapoetry In Euripides
Euripides and the Oresteia
This chapter examines Euripides’ Electra, Iphigenia among the Taurians, and Orestes and argues that the intertextual allusions to the Oresteia in these plays form part of a network of metapoetic devices, including also metaphor, aetiology, and language of plot construction and novelty. The function of this network, it is argued, is to draw attention to Euripidean innovations in plot, location, and character, and to underline Euripides’ responses …
Conclusion
The Conclusion draws together the main arguments of the book through reference to an Aristophanic joke about Euripidean tone. The suggestion that Euripides implicitly invites the audience to interpret his metapoetic games is framed within the context of the Athenian love of riddles and the dramatists’ hopes for intelligent spectators.
Writing and Self‐Conscious Mythopoiēsis
This chapter compares the motif of writing in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and argues that Euripides exploits writing in an entirely new way. It is argued that Euripides associates writing metapoetically with plot construction and authorial control in his plays, through references to written texts and letters used as plot devices, often in conjunction with the term mythos, meaning ‘fiction’. The plays discussed include Palame…
Distorted Oaths in Aeschylus
This paper argues that Aeschylus systematically distorts normative ritual paradigms of oath-taking for dramatic purposes. Oaths in Aeschylus tend to be conspiratorial and/or political in nature. In the Oresteia, conspiratorial oaths will conform to the general pattern evident throughout the trilogy where perverted or inverted images in Agamemnon become ambivalent in Libation Bearers and are restored to their auspicious context in Eumenides. Polit…
Aeschylus and War
Euripides
Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the mouths of slaves, women and the socially inferior in order to address vital social issues such as sex, class and gender relations. It is perhaps little wonder that his work should find such reson…
Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016
This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, was almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation’s history and an event that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish p…
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