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03377aam a2200433 i 4500 001 EA2C0C5C214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 220523t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022024390 020 $a 1788736133 020 $a 9781788736138 035 $a (OCoLC)1292706076 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d BKL $d VP@ $d CDX $d MNN $d YDX $d YUS $d TOH $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PA3131 $b .M34313 2022 082 00 $a 882/.0109 $2 23/eng/20220611 100 1 $a Marx, William, $d 1966- $e author. 240 10 $a Tombeau d'Ådipe. $l English 245 14 $a The tomb of Oedipus : $b why Greek tragedies were not tragic / $c William Marx ; translated by Nicholas Elliott. 264 1 $a London ; $b Verso, $c 2022. 300 $a xi, 212 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: how does Greek tragedy matter to us? -- Prologue and parados: Boundaries and transgression -- The place -- First and second episodes: Oracles and liberty -- The idea -- Third, fourth, and fifth episodes: Terror and pity -- The body -- Sixth episode and exodos: Death and transfiguration -- The God -- Epilogue: On the unexplainable. 520 $a "Greek tragedy is definitely not what you think, and we may never understand it, but this makes it matter all the more to us"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story of a long and incredible misunderstanding. Out of the hundreds of tragedies that were performed, only 32 were preserved in full. Who chose them and why? Why are the lost ones never taken into account? This extremely unusual scholarly book tells us an Umberto Eco-like story about the lost tragedies. By arguing that they would have given a radically different picture, William Marx makes us think in completely new ways about one of the major achievements of Western culture. In this very readable, stimulating, lively, and even sometimes funny book, he explores parallels with Japanese theatre, resolves the enigma of catharsis, sheds a new light on psychoanalysis. In so doing, he tells also the story of the misreadings of our modernity, which disconnected art from the body, the place, and gods. Two centuries ago philosophers transformed Greek tragedies into an ideal archetype, now they want to read them as self-help handbooks, but all are equally wrong: Greek tragedy is definitely not what you think, and we may never understand it, but this makes it matter all the more to us." -- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the French. 650 0 $a Greek drama (Tragedy) $x History and criticism. 650 6 $a TrageÌdie grecque $x Histoire et critique. 650 7 $a Greek drama (Tragedy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00947146 650 7 $a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 700 1 $a Elliott, Nicholas, $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Marx, William. $t Tomb of Oedipus $d Brooklyn : Verso, 2022 $z 9781788736183 $w (DLC) 2022024391 941 $a 1 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718100407.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EA2C0C5C214711EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search