Simon Goldhill

Sophocles & Language of Tragedy Olhc C

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Produktbeschreibung

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles' tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past. Written by one of the best-known classicists working today, this book explores Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist while investigating how the nineteenth-century critics developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current understanding of the genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780199796274
• ISBN-10: 0199796270
• Artikelnr.: 34156541

Autorenporträt

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. His previous books include Jerusalem: City of Longing, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today, and Reading Greek Tragedy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Entrances and Exits
Section 1: 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 Tragedy
5: The Chorus in Action
Section 2: 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
Glossary
Bibliography