Author: SophoclesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments
Author: SophoclesThe Plays and Fragments
Author: SophoclesThe Plays and Fragments: The Philoctetes
Author: SophoclesSophocles
Author: SophoclesPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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H of H Playbook
Author: Anne CarsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473598176
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit Hub H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Herakles") to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea. Amazingly, this does not happen. Due to the intervention of his friend Theseus, Herakles comes to believe he is not, after all, indelibly stained by his own crimes, nor is his life without value. It remains for the reader to judge this redemptive outcome. "I think there is no such thing as an innocent landscape," said Anselm Kiefer, painter of forests grown tall on bones.
A Companion to Sophocles
Author: Kirk OrmandPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119025532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights
Sophocles and the Greek Language
Author: Albert RijksbaronPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception speech, Homeric intertextuality, the style of the Sophoclean satyr-plays in relation to tragedy and comedy, the relation between the repetition of words and focalization, the language of blindness, the image of ‘fire’, the use of deictic pronouns, the semantics of the middle-passive and of counterfactuals, the historic present and the constitution of the text, the suggestive power of descriptions, speech-acts, and strategies of politeness.
The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles
Author: Poulheria KyriakouPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110257564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
The book studies the past of the characters in Aeschylus and Sophocles, a neglected but crucial topic. The characters’ beliefs, values, and emotions bear on their view of the past. This view reinforces their beliefs and their conception of themselves and others as agents of free will and members of a family and/or community. The study reveals that, although the characters’ idea of the past is fixed, the impact of the past is not. The characters consider, review, and construct narratives of it, as they seek to mould a future they perceive as morally just for themselves and others.
Tragic Rites
Author: Adriana E. BrookPublisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299313808
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.
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