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The 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
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- Author
- Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520049574
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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