Sophocles and the language of tragedy
By: Simon Goldhill
Series: The Onassis series in Hellenic culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780199796274
Subjects: Appreciation; Language; The Tragic; Criticism and interpretation; Tragedy; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Undoing : lusis and the analysis of irony; title: The audience on stage : rhetoric, emotion, and judgment; title: Line for line; title: Choreography : the lyric voice of tragedy; title: The chorus in action; title: Generalizing about tragedy; title: Generalizing about the chorus; title: The language of tragedy and modernity : how Electra lost her piety; title: Antigone and the politics of sisterhood : the tragic language of sharing.