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Record Nr.

UNISA996206496503316

Autore

Goldhill Simon

Titolo

Sophocles and the language of tragedy [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Goldhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-19-997882-4

1-280-59480-2

9786613624635

0-19-979632-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 pages)

Collana

The Onassis series in Hellenic culture

Disciplina

882/.01

Soggetti

Tragedy

Tragic, The

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-285), glossary, and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Entrances and exits -- SECTION I: Tragic language -- 1. Undoing : Lusis and the analysis of irony -- 2. The audience on stage: Rhetoric, emotion, and judgment -- 3. Line for line -- 4. Choreography: The lyric voice of Sophoclean tragedy -- 5. The chorus in action -- SECTION II: The language of tragedy -- 6. Generalizing about tragedy -- 7. Generalizing about the chorus -- 8. The language of tragedy and modernity: How Electra lost her piety -- 9. Antigone and the politics of sisterhood: The tragic language of sharing -- CODA: Reading, with or without Hegel: From text to script.

Sommario/riassunto

This title presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles' tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past. The book explores Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist while investigating how the 19th-century critics developed a specific understanding of tragedy.