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Confronting the sublime: The poetic powers of Sophocles' heroes.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Confronting the sublime: The poetic powers of Sophocles' heroes./
Author:	Nooter, Sarah Hamilton.
Description:	182 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Helene Foley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Language, Ancient. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3317594
ISBN:	9780549657996

Confronting the sublime: The poetic powers of Sophocles' heroes.
Nooter, Sarah Hamilton.

Confronting the sublime: The poetic powers of Sophocles' heroes. - 182 p.

Adviser: Helene Foley.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2008.

This study examines resonances of archaic poetry in the tragedies of Sophocles. It focuses in particular on patterns of address, apostrophe, and invocation and shows how these devices are at work in the speech of Sophocles' protagonists. The marked speech of these protagonists puts them in a position similar to that of archaic poets, as imagined in classical Athens: in proximity to the gods and the dead. The subject of the first chapter is Ajax and the ways in which Ajax' language is frequently, with varied success, directed towards the gods. His speech touches on the language of reciprocity as found in Homer, but shifts into the tones of thr enoi, and finally to hymnal language. His death is also the death of communication between gods and men. The second chapter examines Electra's use of lamentation in Electra and looks at similar linguistic patterns in Antigone. In the former, Electra's forceful language of lamentation becomes the means by which she dominates and re-directs the play. Antigone uses similar language, but with little influence until her death, at which point her acts transform into signs that must be read and accepted. The third chapter looks to Heracles' speech in Trachiniae as well as to Oedipus' speech in Oedipus Tyrannus and points to devices that align these two heroes' language with encomiastic poetry, particularly that of Pindar. This chapter also explores Sophocles' use of linguistic contrast in setting Heracles' emphatic language against the backdrop of Deianira's very passive constructions, and Oedipus' lyrical language against his formerly politicized self-presentation. The fourth and final chapter deals with Philoctetes and with the protagonist's propensity for addressing others and apostrophizing his surroundings. Philoctetes is perhaps the most consistently forceful in language of all of Sophocles' characters and most like to a poet in the intensely apostrophic bent of his speech. The epilogue of this study considers several ancient portraits of poets and their powers in order to view from another angle the poetry used by Sophocles to bring his heroes' language to an elevated register.

ISBN: 9780549657996Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018100
Language, Ancient.

Confronting the sublime: The poetic powers of Sophocles' heroes.
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