Language and Character in Euripides' Electra

Author:   Evert van Emde Boas (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Research Centre, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 January 2017
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Author:   Evert van Emde Boas (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Calleva Research Centre, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9780198793601


ISBN 10:   019879360
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   19 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
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Frontmatter List of Figures A Note on Citation, Abbreviations, and Cross-referencing 0: Introduction: Modern Linguistics and Euripides' Electra 1. Aims, approaches, outline 1.1. Reading, linguistically 1.2. Outline of the book 2. Linguistic approaches 2.1. Introduction: Bauformen and text types 2.2. Conversation Analysis 2.3. Pragmatics 2.3.1 Speech acts 2.3.2 (Neo-)Gricean theories of meaning 2.4. Sociolinguistics 2.4.1 Gender 2.4.2 Politeness and power 2.5. Gnomic utterances in context: some aspects of modern paremiology 2.6. Narrative and argumentative texts: discourse cohesion 3. Textual criticism 4. A view of the play 4.1. Characters and characterization 4.1.1 Conceptualization; characterization through style 4.1.2 Electra and Orestes 4.2. Themes and motifs 4.3. Tradition (and the recognition scene) 4.4. The roads not taken . . . I: Rustic Language: The Peasant 1. Introduction 2. A peasant's tale (1 53) 3. Husband and wife (54 81, 341 63, 404 31) 3.1. A marriage under face-threat 3.2. Getting water (54 81) 3.3. Welcoming guests (341 63) 3.4. Preparing food (404 31) 4. Further stylistic points; conclusion II: Constancy Amid Change: The Linguistic Characterization of Electra 1. Introduction 2. Resistance through lament: the early scenes (54 81, 112 214) 2.1. Electra as mourner 2.2. Electra as wife 2.3. Electra as Argive 'maiden' 2.4. The characterization of Electra 2.4.1 Patterns of miscommunication 2.4.2 Electra's character: the debate 3. Electra and her unexpected guest (215 338) 3.1. The stichomythia (215 89) 3.2. The 'message' (300 38) 4. Recognition and planning (487 698) 5. Electra, Aegisthus, and Clytemnestra 5.1. A play of halves? 5.2. The 'kakology' (907 56) 5.2.1 Electra's 'undramatic' generalizations 5.2.2 Analysis of the speech 5.3. 'Into the boudoir': Electra and Clytemnestra (998 1146) 5.3.1 Opening exchanges (998 1010) 5.3.2 Clytemnestra's speech (1011 50) 5.3.3 Parrhesia (1055 9) 5.3.4 Electra's speech (1060 99) 5.3.5 Mother and daughter (1102 46) 6. Exodos 6.1. The kommos (1177 1232) 6.2. The deus ex machina (1233 1358) III: Orestes' Linguistic (Dis)guises 1. Introduction 2. Orestes incognito 2.1. Initial observations 2.2. The general reflections 2.2.1 'A man in exile is powerless' (236) 2.2.2 Pity and intelligence (290 6) 2.2.3 Evaluating character (367 400) 2.3. The second disguise (774 858) 3. Conclusion IV: Redrawing the Lines: Pragmatics and Gender in Textual Criticism 1. Introduction 1.1. Vexed passages 1.2. L and P 2. Divided (?) we pray (671 84) 3. The hesitation scene (959 87) 3.1. On giving orders and having fashion sense (959 66) 3.2. Diverging minds (967 87) 4. Conclusion V: A Tense Affair: The Messenger Speech 1. Introduction 2. Not 'what?' but 'how?' 3. Analysis of the narrative 3.1. Setting the scene (774 8) 3.2. 'A deliciously protracted game of cat and mouse' (779 97) 3.3. A moment for prayer (798 810) 3.4. The sacrifice of Aegisthus (810 43) 3.5. Aftermath and resolution (844 55, 855 7, 857 8) 3.6. Evaluation 4. Conclusion VI: The Language of Rhetoric: The Agon Revisited 1. Introduction 2. Exordium 2.1. Clytemnestra 2.2. Electra 3. Narratio 3.1. Clytemnestra 3.2. Electra 4. Argumentatio 4.1. Generalizations 4.2. Clytemnestra's hypotheticals 4.3. Rhetoric and characterization 5. Peroratio 5.1. Clytemnestra 5.2. Electra 6. Peroratio (II) VII: Conclusion: Approaching Tragic Language Endmatter Glossary of Linguistic Terms Bibliography Indexes

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-Evert van Emde Boas has produced a masterful book. His successful application of a linguistic approach should open the gateway to much valuable appreciation of the tragedies in the future. We should be most grateful to him.- --James Morwood, Classics for All


Evert van Emde Boas has produced a masterful book. His successful application of a linguistic approach should open the gateway to much valuable appreciation of the tragedies in the future. We should be most grateful to him. * James Morwood, Classics for All * I found van Emde Boas's analyses convincing and illuminating. His book combines an excellent contribution to the interpretation of this play with a methodological demonstration that ought to prove influential. * Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome * The book as a whole is well organized and meticulously detailed, and presents a fresh approach to this play * Kathryn Mattison, Department of Classics, McMaster University, Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada *


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Evert van Emde Boas is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Calleva Research Centre at Magdalen College, Oxford, where his work forms part of an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychology of theatre audiences. He received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Amsterdam and completed both an MSt and a DPhil at the University of Oxford, before going on to hold various teaching and research positions at the University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, the University of Groningen, and Leiden University. His research focuses primarily on the application of modern linguistic and cognitive approaches to ancient Greek literature.

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