EUR  â¬130.82EUR  â¬124.00 excl. VAT
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus
Perspectives on Genre and Poetics
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 491
Author:
So little happens in the earliest surviving plays that their dramatic status almost eludes the reader. This kind of reading experience encourages a revision of inherited views and historiographies of dramatic literature. It also raises broader questions about how action came to define drama and how these genre developments influenced the reception of more open forms. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus reassesses tragic narratives and the power they exert over (internal) narratees as the essence of tragedy in the 470sâ460s BCE. The book understands Aeschylean and Aeschylus-like theatre as a practice that combined elements of storytelling with enacted responses to them. Crucially, it develops and tests strategies for reading the literary remains of this practice. Drawing on archaic to contemporary discourses on genre, we seek to adapt the readerâs perspective on earlier dramatic texts, rather than vice versa.
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus was awarded the Gustav Figdor Prize for Linguistics and Literary Studies.
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus was awarded the Gustav Figdor Prize for Linguistics and Literary Studies.
Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar, Ph.D. (2008), is an Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Vienna, specializing in the interactions between performance and literature. Following her monograph on Heraclitus (Olms 2010), she edited Choreutika (Serra 2017) and co-edited Choreonarratives (Brill 2021).
"All in all, in her study Narratives at Play in Aeschylus, Gianvittorio-Ungar crowns her recent studies on Aeschylean stagecraft. What is especially valuable is that she patiently elaborates her methodology and strives to construct concepts inherited from antiquity that are informed by modern theories, through a cautious and efficient combination of emic and etic perspectives."
Anne Morvan in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2026.01.09
Anne Morvan in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2026.01.09
students/specialists in Classical, Literature and Theatre Studies; specialists in Greek drama, genre theory, drama history, and narratology.