Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

This article undertakes an analysis of the deployment of sound in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus that is grounded in a material aesthetics. Oedipus' blindness elevates sound's significance, and the play simultaneously emphasizes the power of voice (sunthēmata, here termed "auditory recognition tokens") and the ineffable (the aphatos thunderbolt of Zeus), phenomena that serve, respectively, to draw the audience into a close sensory sympathy with the dramatic world and to emphasize its ultimate inaccessibility. This exaggerated distance and proximity evokes an ambivalent affective experience, identified here with "the sublime" à la Longinus but also Lyotard, with a corollary in Kristeva's abject

Acoustics · Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Beauty · Corollary · Literature · Physics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Sound (geography · Sublime · Sympathy · Classical Antiquity Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Psychology

• Jacques Lacan and the adventure of insight

  Shoshana Felman•Jacques Lacan and the adventure…•1987

  Añadir item

• The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

  Keir Elam•Semiotics of Theatre and Drama•2003

  Añadir item

• Powers of Horror

  Julia Kristeva, Leon S Roudiez•Powers of Horror•2024

  Añadir item

• Greek drama and political theory

  Open Access•Simon Goldhill•The Cambridge History of Greek…•2000

  Añadir item

• The Sublime

  Open Access•Timothy M Costelloe•Sublime•2012

  Añadir item

• Tragic Narrative

  Andreas Markantonatos•Tragic Narrative•2002

  Añadir item

• The Sublime in Antiquity

  Open Access•James I Porter•Sublime in Antiquity•2016

  Añadir item

• Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture

  Open Access•Anna hlig, Richard Hunter et al.•Imagining Reperformance in…•2017

  Añadir item

• The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

  Open Access•Sarah Nooter•Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of…•2017

  Añadir item

• When Heroes Sing

  Open Access•Sarah Nooter•When Heroes Sing•2012

  Añadir item

• Sophocles

  Open Access•R P Winnington-Ingram, R P Winnington‐ingram•Sophocles•1980

  Añadir item

• Ansichten griechischer Rituale

  Gerhard Baudy, Hans Dieter Betz et al.•Ansichten Griechischer Rituale•1998

  Añadir item

• "Scholia vetera in Sophoclis "Oedipum Coloneum

  Georgios A Xenis•Scholia Vetera in Sophoclis…•2018

  Añadir item

• Espaces sacrés, rites et oracles dans l'Œdipe à Colone de Sophocle

  Jacques Jouanna•Revue des Études Grecques•1995

  Añadir item

• Antigone at Colonus and the End(s) of Tragedy

  Open Access•Brooke Holmes•Ramus•2013

  Añadir item

• Crisis on stage

  Andreas Markantonatos, Bernhard Zimmermann•Crisis on Stage•2011

  Añadir item

• The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

  Richard Neer•Emergence of the Classical Style…•2010

  Añadir item

• Oedipus and Insight

  R Michels•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1986

  Añadir item

• Lessons on the analytic of the sublime

  Jean-François Lyotard•Lessons on the analytic of the…•1994

  Añadir item

• Language in the Theater

  Keir Elam•SubStance•1977

  Añadir item

• The Postmodern Condition

  Jean-François Lyotard, Geoff Bennington et al.•1984

  Añadir item

• Suppliant and Saviour

  Peter Burian•Phoenix•1974

  Añadir item

• Vibrant Matter

  Jane Bennett, Jane Foress Bennett•Vibrant Matter•2020

  Añadir item