Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae

by: Heiden, B.

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 This innovative study of Sophocles' Trachiniae deepens our appreciation of the enigmatic nature of Sophoclean tragedy and its place in the Athens of the Sophists. By carefully examining the play's narrative and rhetorical strategies, Bruce Heiden shows that the plot of Trachiniae must be constructed by the creative interpretation of the spectator or reader, and he demonstrates that Sophocles' extensive use of speeches reporting offstage events dramatizes the very problems that arise when rhetorical claims of knowledge conceal acts of interpretation. Tragic Rhetoric will interest both classicists and students of literary theory.

Contents
Introduction Reading as a Sophist 1
Chapter One Fear out of Fear 19
Chapter Two The Report of a Report 41
Chapter Three A Pain that Cures 81
Chapter Four Hteipan adelon: Everything Flows 99
Chapter Five Things Pitiful to See 125
Chapter Six "what SPLENDOUR, IT ALL COHERES" 135
Notes 163
Bibliography 193
Index 201

Subjects:
Heracles (Greek mythological character)
Heracles (Greek mythological character) In literature
Heracles (Greek mythology) in literature
Héraclès (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature
Kommentar
Literature
Sophocle
Sophocle / Trachiniae
Sophocle, 0496?-0406 av. J.-C
Sophocles
Sophocles Trachiniae
Sophocles ca. 497/496 v. Chr.-406 v. Chr
Trachiniae
Trachiniae (Sophocles)
Tragedy
Tragédie
tragedies
Ηρακλής (Ελληνική μυθολογία) στη λογοτεχνία

Series:
Hermeneutic commentaries, vol. 1

204 pages ; 23 cm.

Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae

by: Heiden, B.

• ISBN-13: 9780820409511 / 978-0-8204-0951-1
• ISBN-03: 0820409510 / 0-8204-0951-0
• Peter Lang, New York, 1989

Price: 63,00 EURO

1 copy in stock