Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 April 2012
- ISBN 9780199796274
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 236x157x27 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations n/a 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his manipulation of irony, his construction of dialogue, and his deployment of the actors and the chorus. Goldhill also investigates how nineteenth-century critics like Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wagner developed a specific understanding of tragedy, one that has shaped our current approach to the genre. Finally, Goldhill addresses one of the foundational questions of literary criticism: how historically self-conscious should a reading of Greek tragedy be? The result is an invigorating and exciting new interpretation of the most canonical of Western authors.
With this latest book, Simon Goldhill brings his customary acumen and verve to reading the 'language' of Sophoclean tragedy from two very different perspectives. ... By placing between the same covers 'profoundly conservative' and 'rashly revolutionary' critical perspectives (3), Goldhill instills in the reader a new awareness of the interpretive practices that have sustained tragedy scholarship for centuries at the same time that he defamiliarizes them. His eye for telling detail, moreover, combined with his panoramic sweep of intellectual history, is...enthralling.
Table of Contents:
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
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