Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides' a |
Subtitle:
Tragic a
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Book Category:
History > General
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Author:
Baechle, Nicho
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Editor::
Baechle, Nicho
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ISBN 13:
9783110613100
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Price:
EUR 79.95
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Publication Year:
2020
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Book Description
Euripides' Electra thematizes and analyzes the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it reflected traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even in a radical democracy. An analogy between social and aesthetic valuation is played out and problematized: social appearances made clear the virtues and agency of the well-born just as aesthetic "appearances" indicated heroic character and agency.