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The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy

Bernard Knox

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Description:The first two chapters of this book isolate & 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 thru character-analysis, but thru a close examination of the language employed by both the hero & 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 & Oedipus at Colonus emphasizes the individuality & 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 & critical; the universal & 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. To get started finding The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The first two chapters of this book isolate & 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 thru character-analysis, but thru a close examination of the language employed by both the hero & 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 & Oedipus at Colonus emphasizes the individuality & 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 & critical; the universal & 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy. To get started finding The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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