Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ ›Electra‹: Tragic ›Kunstsprache‹ and the ›kharaktēr‹ of Heroes PDF
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Nicholas Baechle Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ Electra Beiträge zur Altertumskunde Herausgegeben von Susanne Daub, Michael Erler, Dorothee Gall, Ludwig Koenen und Clemens Zintzen Band 379 Nicholas Baechle Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ Electra Tragic Kunstsprache and the kharaktēr of heroes ISBN 978-3-11-061310-0 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-061099-4 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-061131-1 ISSN 1616-0452 Library of Congress Control Number: 2020933278 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com For Uschi, again Contents Introduction: The complex analogy between social appearance and stylistic presentation and the provocations to cultural self-awareness played out in Euripides’ Electra 1 I The initial presentation of the Old Man: Characterization and stylistic presentation of an oddly mundane, even anti-heroic, tragic character 7 II The initial presentation of Orestes: Appearance, eugeneia, and social expectations about character and agency 22 III Orestes, eugeneia, and aesthetic expectations about heroic characterization and agency 44 IV Achilles and the first stasimon: Stylistic effect and the “appearance” of an heroic character 53 V The Old Man again: The Kunstsprache and character construction 59 VI The Kunstsprache, defamiliarization, and the metapoetics of character construction 69 VII The Old Man and Orestes: The problem of eugeneia in the second episode 78 VIII Metapoetics in the abortive first section of the recognition scene 87 IX The recognition proper: the kharaktēr of tragic heroes 106 X Unquestioned assumptions and the aesthetics of valuation: What can be made of this Orestes? 115 Conclusion: Cultural context and tradition: Continuity of substance and appearance and the basis of the complex analogy 134 Works cited 144 Subject index 157 Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Uschi Appelt, Jared Bates, Victor Bers, Summer Brown, Barbara Burrell, Martin Hose, Sean O’ Neill, and Cori Oney. My students, Cori and Summer, may not even be aware that they helped out along the way, by being perceptive and observant. The others have chosen to respond generously with their time and expertise and improved the text in many ways. Most of all, I would like to thank my wife, Uschi. As always, she has been patient with me and supportive; and her insight and acuity have helped me formulate and think through the interpretative problems this book attempts to address. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610994-203
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