{"product_id":"the-heroic-temper-studies-in-sophoclean-tragedy-volume-35-paperback","title":"The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy Volume 35 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBernard M. Knox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first two chapters of this book isolate and 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 through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the \"formula\" of Sophoclean tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eAntigone, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOedipus at Colonus, \u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard M. W. Knox\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., was formerly Professor of Classics at Yale University. He is the author of numerous articles and monographs including \u003ci\u003eThe Serpent and the Flame, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOedipus at Thebes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.18 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 1983\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44289152188518,"sku":"9780520049574","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aDRtZmo4WkxTY051OUdWamU2SVJ1Zz09.webp?v=1766739007","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-heroic-temper-studies-in-sophoclean-tragedy-volume-35-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}