| Description |
viii, 234 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Literature Cam ; 374 |
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Literature Cam ; 374
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Critical canons -- The historical method and its limitations -- The documentary fallacy -- Pattern-making -- Aristotelian dicta: catharsis -- pt. 2. The plays and their problems -- 'Diptych' plays: The "Ajax" -- Sophoclean melodrama: The "Trachiniae" -- Romantic tragedy: The "Antigone" -- Drama of dramas: The "Oedipus Tyrannus" -- Doom or triumph?: The "Electra" -- Sophocles improvises: The "Philoctetes" -- Grand finale: The "Oedipus Coloneus." |
| Analysis |
Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature |
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Sophocles Criticism and interpretation |
| Notes |
First pub. 1951 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-230) and index |
| Subject |
880-01 Sophocles.
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880-01 Σοφοκλής. |
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Sophocles -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sophocles.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
nun00346185 |
| ISBN |
0521093740 |
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9780521093743 |
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