Greek Tragic Style

Form, Language and Interpretation

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ID19949415
AuthorsR B Rutherford (University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-05-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGreek Tragic Style (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511842771
OpenAlexW4299799933
ISBN9780511842771
Open LibraryOL34472054M
LanguageEN
Citations received44

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

Art · Chorus · Greek tragedy · Irony · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Rhetoric · Style (visual arts) · Tragedy (event) · Vocabulary · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy · Ancient, Classical & Medieval · Greek drama · Greek drama, history and criticism · History and criticism · Literary collections · To 1500

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