When Heroes Sing - Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Nooter is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. Klappentext This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power. Zusammenfassung This book uses close readings of the Greek texts to examine the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and to argue that their identities are grounded in poetic power. It offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: poetry, tragedy, and Sophocles; Part I. Poetic Authority: 1. Poetic progress in Ajax; 2. Waxing heroic in Trachiniae and Oedipus Tyrannus; Part II. Poetic Power: 3. Addressing lament in Electra; 4. Philoctetes' apostrophes; 5. The end and afterlife of poeticity: Oedipus at Colonus.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Nooter, Sarah (University of Chicago) Nooter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9781107001619
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00161-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies