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The Heroic Temper : Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy by Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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