While Greek tragedies are often studied as works of literature, they are less frequently examined as products of the social and political environment in which they were created. Rarely, too, are the visual and spatial aspects of these plays given careful consideration. In this detailed and innovative book, Lowell Edmunds combines two readings of the Oedipus at Colonus to arrive at a new way of looking at Greek tragedy. Edmunds sets forth a semiotic theory of theatrical space, and then applies this theory to the visual and spatial dimensions of the Oedipus at Colonus. In his historical analysis, Edmunds describes the Athenian revolution of 411 B.C.E. and its effect on Colonus. The book includes an appendix on the life of Sophocles and the reception of the Oedipus at Colonus. Edmunds' unique approach to the Oedipus at Colonus. makes this an important book for students and scholars of semiotics, Greek tragedy, and theatrical performance.
Recenzijos
In sum, Edmunds offers a theoretically sophisticated vision of post-modern Sophocles; I have learned much from this book. * New England Classical Journal * A specialized and challenging study. -- Clfton Kreps, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO * Religious Studies Review, Vol. 24 No. 3 / July 1998 * To what extent is the meaning of a historically remote text anchored to the past? In this provocative new historical reading of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Edmunds explores the archaeology of meaning from the suggestive vantage point of a classicist fully at home with the major issues of contemporary critical theory. -- Michael Issacharoff, University of Western Ontario
Chapter 1 List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction:
Geography, Philosophy, and the Environment
Chapter 2 On the Ethical
Determination of Geography: A Kantian prolegomenon
Chapter 3 Nature Presence:
Reflections on Healing and Domination
Chapter 4 The Taking Clause and the
Meanings of Land
Chapter 5 Muslim Contributions to Geography and
Environmental Ethics: The Challenges of Comparison and Pluralism
Chapter 6
The Dialectical Social Geography of Eliseč Reclus
Chapter 7 The Maintenance
of Natural Capital: Motivations and Methods
Chapter 8 Wilderness Management
Chapter 9 Mead and Heidegger: Exploring the Ethics and Theory of Space,
Place, and the Environment
Chapter 10 Critical Reflections on Biocentric
Environmental Ethics: Is It an Alternative to Anthropocentrism?
Chapter 11
Ecology, Modernity, and the Intellectual Legacy of the Frankfurt School
Chapter 12 Critical Questions in Environmental Philosophy
Chapter 13 Index
Lowell Edmunds is professor of classics at Rutgers University.
