When heroes sing : Sophocles and the shifting soundscape of tragedy / Sarah Nooter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nooter, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sophocles--Language.

Sophocles.

Tragedy--History and criticism.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Poetic progress in Ajax

Waxing heroic in Trachiniae and Oedipus Tyrannus

Addressing lament in Electra

Philoctetes' apostrophes

The end and afterlife of poeticity: Oedipus at Colonus.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22662-7

1-139-50797-4

1-280-77393-6

9786613684707

1-139-51754-6

0-511-73620-7

1-139-51496-2

1-139-51404-0

1-139-51661-2

1-139-51847-X

OCLC:

796803961