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p5547p90s6t	Sean M. Kelly	The Tension between Past and Present in the Chorus of Electra: Sophocles and Strauss	1904		.txt	text/plain	192	4	17	This thesis examines the dismantling of the chorus' functions in Sophocles' Electra in Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss' opera adaptation of the play in order to demonstrate that this action reflects Hofmannsthal's personal literary crisis, which involved the tension between literary tradition and innovation. The second chapter then offers a comparative analysis of Sophocles' play and Hofmannsthal's libretto, citing Freudian psychoanalysis as a formative context for Hofmannsthal's innovation and subsequent representation of his own literary crisis.	cache/p5547p90s6t.txt	txt/p5547p90s6t.txt