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Zusatztext Following up on his landmark studies of Aeschylus and his influential Reading Greek Tragedy, Goldhill offers now a full-length look at Sophocles. With his customary versatility as critic and cultural historian, he offers a Janus-faced volume that looks in two directions. In the first instance, there are exemplary close readings with insistence on the rhetoric, politics, and history of 5th century Athens as essential background for articulating how the poet develops his own particular engagement with the language of tragedy. In the second, Goldhill spreads a wider net to expose the often unrecognized historicity of our own understanding of the tragic, established especially by 19th century German thinkers, for whom Sophocles represented the perfect paradigm. Like all his work, Goldhill challenges us to rethink inherited ideas and deepens our understanding at every turn of the fabled author of Oedipus the King and those who have cherished him. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
