Book Description
A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.
Author : Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780801482410
A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.
Author : G. M. Kirkwood
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Author : Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Author : Alessandro Setti
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1958
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Author : Gordon M. Kirkwood
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780520049574
The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."
Author : G. M.. Kirkwood
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Greek literature
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Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299313808
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.
Author : Sherrilyn Rowan Martin
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Greek drama
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