Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Entrances and Exits -- Section I : Tragic Language -- 1 Undoing: Lusis and the Analysis of Irony -- 2 The Audience on Stage: Rhetoric, Emotion, and Judgement -- 3 Line for Line -- 4 Choreography: The Lyric Voice of Sophoclean Tragedy -- 5 The Chorus in Action -- Section II : 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 -- A -- B -- D -- E -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- P -- S -- T -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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