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

• Autore: Goldhill Simon
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 pages)
• Disciplina: 882/.01
• Soggetto topico: Tragedy; Tragic, The
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
• ISBN: 0-19-997882-4; 1-280-59480-2; 9786613624635; 0-19-979632-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996206496503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Onassis series in Hellenic culture.