Author: Ann G. Batchelder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: orestes, seal
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1994-12-28
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0847679918
ISBN-13: 9780847679911

In this groundbreaking inquiry into the poetics of authenticity and authority in Sophocles’ "Electra", Batchelder looks at Aegisthus and Orestes as rival dramatists, who each use the illusions of the theater in a struggle for control of Mycenae. She demonstrates that the Seal of Orestes-the signet ring of his father-is the recognition token not only for Electra, but also for the entire play, revealing "Electra" as a self-referential play about play writing.

Author: Dennis Batchelder
Publisher: NetLeaves
Keywords: intent, soul
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0979805627
ISBN-13: 9780979805622

A VILLAIN’S REQUEST In 1946, soon-to-be-executed Nazi General Hermann Goering asks young Soul Identity overseer Archibald Morgan to take his looted gold and deposit it in a soul line collection, there to await his soul’s rebirth. A GRIM RESISTANCE Flora, a seventeen-year-old Gypsy girl whose father died in the Dachau concentration camp, is sure that Goering stole the gold. She struggles to persuade Morgan to reject the Nazi’s deposit, but Morgan prevails. A MYSTERIOUS THEFT Sixty-four years have passed. A repentant Morgan opens Goering’s collection and discove