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Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,802
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Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy (Paperback, New): Stuart Lawrence

Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy (Paperback, New)

Stuart Lawrence

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Lawrence's volume provides a detailed discussion and analyses of the moral awareness of major characters in Greek tragedy, focusing particularly on the characters' recognition of moral issues and crises, their ability to reflect on them, and their consciousness of doing so. Beginning with a definition of morality and examining the implications of analysing the moral performance of fictional characters, Lawrence considers concepts of the self and the problem of autonomy and personal responsibility in the context of divine intervention, which is a crucial feature of the genre. The volume then moves on to the individual plays (Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes and Oresteia; Sophocles' Ajax, Trachiniae, Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Philoctetes; and Euripides' Medea, Hecuba, Hippolytus, Heracles, Electra, and Bacchae), focusing in each case on a crisis or crises faced by a major character and examining the background which led to it. Lawrence then considers the individual character's moral response and relates it to the critical issues formulated in the volume's opening discussions. The book will be important to any student of Classical Studies and those in Philosophy or Literature interested in a theoretical discussion of the morality of literary characters.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2013
First published: December 2012
Authors: Stuart Lawrence
Dimensions: 234 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 346
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-965976-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
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LSN: 0-19-965976-1
Barcode: 9780199659760

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