When Heroes Sing
Sophocles and the Shifting Soundscape of Tragedy
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 May 2012
- ISBN 9781107001619
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 235x158x15 mm
- Weight 470 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power.
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This book examines the lyrical voice of Sophocles' heroes and argues that their identities are grounded in poetic identity and power. It begins by looking at how voice can be distinguished in Greek tragedy and by exploring ways that the language of tragedy was influenced by other kinds of poetry in late fifth-century Athens. In subsequent chapters, Professor Nooter undertakes close readings of Sophocles' plays to show how the voice of each hero is inflected by song and other markers of lyric poetry. She then argues that the heroes' lyrical voices set them apart from their communities and lend them the authority and abilities of poets. Close analysis of the Greek texts is supplemented by translations and discussions of poetic features more generally, such as apostrophe and address. This study offers new insight into the ways that Sophoclean tragedy inherits and refracts the traditions of other poetic genres.
"Nooter has good observations on every play, and a strong sense of how the musical forms and marked language of a play contribute to its overall effect. Readers interested in stagecraft, rhetoric, or poetics (of tragedy and beyond) will benefit from the book. ...this is a creative reading of six of the seven extant plays of Sophocles from a new point of view, filled with fascinating observations." --BMCR
Table of Contents:
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.
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