UID:
edocfu_9958325267902883
Format:
1 online resource (286 pages).
ISBN:
90-474-1742-9
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 269
Content:
This volume offers an extensive overview of the various ways in which Sophocles’ use of the Greek language is currently being studied. Greatly admired in antiquity, Sophocles’ style only became a serious subject of investigation with Campbell’s Introductory essay On the language of Sophocles (1879). Fourteen chapters, divided into three sections (diction, syntax, pragmatics), discuss the linguistic register and use of gnomai in Ajax’ deception speech, Homeric intertextuality, the style of the Sophoclean satyr-plays in relation to tragedy and comedy, the relation between the repetition of words and focalization, the language of blindness, the image of ‘fire’, the use of deictic pronouns, the semantics of the middle-passive and of counterfactuals, the historic present and the constitution of the text, the suggestive power of descriptions, speech-acts, and strategies of politeness.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
J.C. KAMERBEEK. THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOKS /
,
WEAPONS AND DAY’S WHITE HORSES: THE LANGUAGE OF AJAX /
,
SOPHOCLES AND HOMER: SOME ISSUES OF VOCABULARY /
,
WORDS IN THE CONTEXT OF BLINDNESS /
,
SOPHOCLES’ SATYR-PLAYS AND THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANCE /
,
WHERE NARRATOLOGY MEETS STYLISTICS: THE SEVEN VERSIONS OF AJAX’ MADNESS /
,
SOPHOCLES ON FIRE: TO PUR IN PHILOCTETES /
,
SOPHOCLES’ VOICE. ACTIVE, MIDDLE, AND PASSIVE IN THE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES /
,
ON FALSE HISTORIC PRESENTS IN SOPHOCLES (AND EURIPIDES) /
,
THE USE OF THE DEMONSTRATIVES ὅδε, oὗτoς AND (έ)κεῖvoς IN SOPHOCLES /
,
‘YOU COULD HAVE THOUGHT’: PAST POTENTIALS IN SOPHOCLES? /
,
TROPE AND SETTING IN SOPHOCLES’ ELECTRA /
,
KILLING WORDS. SPEECH ACTS AND NON-VERBAL ACTIONS IN SOPHOCLEAN TRAGEDIES /
,
THE POLYSEMY OF GNOMIC EXPRESSIONS AND AJAX’ DECEPTION SPEECH /
,
SOPHOCLES IN THE LIGHT OF FACE-THREAT POLITENESS THEORY /
,
BIBLIOGRAPHY /
,
GENERAL INDEX /
,
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS /
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INDEX OF PASSAGES DISCUSSED /
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SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-04-14752-7
Language:
English
