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Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides' >Electra< - Tragic >Kunstsprache< and the >kharakter< of Heroes (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides' >Electra< - Tragic >Kunstsprache< and the >kharakter< of Heroes (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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Euripides' Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to
become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both
reflected and sustained traditional, aristocratically-inflected
assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even
in a radical democracy. A complex analogy between social and
aesthetic valuation is played out and brought to light. The
characterization of Orestes early in the play demonstrates how
social appearances made clear the identity of well-born, and how
they were still assumed to indicate superior virtue and agency. On
the aesthetic side of the analogy, one of the functions of tragic
diction, as an essential indication of heroic character and agency,
comes into view in a dramatic and thematic sequence that begins
with Achilles ode and ends with the planning of the murders.
Serious doubts are created as to whether Orestes will realize the
assumed potential inherent in his heroic genealogy and, at the same
time, as to whether the components of his character as an aesthetic
construct are congruent with such qualities and agency. Both sides
of this complex analogy are thus problematized, and, at a
metapoetic level, its nature and bases are exposed for reflection.
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