In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology
to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus.
Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended
metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of
old men forms an allegorical relationship with the aged Oedipus,
which depends in turn upon the chorus's own likeness to the
Athenian audience. The play relates Oedipus allegorically to the
audience through the tragic chorus and transforms Oedipus' relation
to the body of his mother Jocasta into a new relation to the land
of Attica. Corresponding readings of Aeschylus' Suppliants and
Euripides' Bacchea further explore the chorus's role in expressing
the relation of the individual to the maternal body. Employing a
flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations
psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's
conception of the problems of human existence. The introduction
provides a useful survey of the advantages and disadvantages of
various psychological approaches to tragedy, making this an
important volume for students and scholars alike.
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