Change of Mind in Greek TragedyVandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 - 286 pages |
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... criticism sometimes takes reconstruction of personal motivation too far , he seems to me to overstate his case : the ... criticism associated with Oliver Taplin , to whom every critic of Greek tragedy owes a great debt . a point ) of ...
... criticism sometimes takes reconstruction of personal motivation too far , he seems to me to overstate his case : the ... criticism associated with Oliver Taplin , to whom every critic of Greek tragedy owes a great debt . a point ) of ...
Page 50
... criticism has been unable to dispense entirely with the tired examination of motives for the excellent reason that the dramatists almost always make sure we know that their characters have them . I do not think that any nexus of terms ...
... criticism has been unable to dispense entirely with the tired examination of motives for the excellent reason that the dramatists almost always make sure we know that their characters have them . I do not think that any nexus of terms ...
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... criticism , it means " attributed persuasively . " Two obvious cases suggest themselves here : motivation which a character cannot or will not state ( Hippolytus under oath , Agamemnon in the Hecuba moved by passion for Cassandra ) , or ...
... criticism , it means " attributed persuasively . " Two obvious cases suggest themselves here : motivation which a character cannot or will not state ( Hippolytus under oath , Agamemnon in the Hecuba moved by passion for Cassandra ) , or ...
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Achilles action Admetus Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Alcestis Antigone Apollo argument Aristotelian Aristotle Athenian Athens audience avoid believe Blundell Burnett change of mind chapter character characterization chorus Clytemnestra conflict context Creon Creusa criticism death deception decision Deianeira Dionysus discussion divine dramatic earlier Electra Erinyes Euripidean Euripides example fact father finally focus Funke further Greek tragedy Hecuba Helen Heracles heroic temper Hippolytus intentions interpretation intrigue Ion's Iphigenia in Aulis issue Knox later Lesky lines marriage meaning Medea Menelaus metaphor monody moral motif motivation move Neoptolemus occur Odysseus Oedipus Orestes passage patterns persuasion Phaedra Philoctetes play play's plot possible prologue psychological question reluctance remains response reveal reversal rhetorical sacrifice says scene secret seems situation Sophoclean Hero Sophocles speak speech stage stasimon suggest suicide Taplin technique Tecmessa thematic theme Theseus Tiresias tradition tragic words Xuthus Yunis Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ κακῶν τὸ