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Greek tragic style : form, language, and interpretation /
Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of the tragic genre. The autho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of the tragic genre. The author describes the varied handling of spoken dialogue and of lyric song; major topics such as vocabulary, rhetoric and imagery are considered in detail and illustrated from a broad range of plays. The contribution of the chorus to the dramas is also discussed. Characterisation, irony and generalising statements are treated in separate chapters and these topics are illuminated by comparisons which show not only what is shared by the three major dramatists but also what distinguishes their practice. The book sheds light both on the genre as a whole and on many particular passages"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 471 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-445) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139421584 1139421581 9781139423625 1139423622 9780511842771 0511842775 1139411195 9781139411196 1107225701 9781107225701 1280682876 9781280682872 1139422553 9781139422550 9786613659811 6613659819 1139419536 9781139419536 1139417487 9781139417488 |