Sounding the Classics From Sophocles to Thomas Mann

Name: Sounding the Classics From Sophocles to Thomas Mann
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ISBN: 9780275959654

ISBN-10: 0275959651

ISBN-13: 9780275959654

Edition: 1997

Authors: Rudolph Binion

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This book is a comparative study of twelve works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to discover what gives these twelve works their lasting appeal and vitality over and beyond their formal qualities. It focuses on the interplay of "text" and "subtext" within each work after defining these terms at the outset. It then compares its twelve sample classics systematically in a conclusion that argues from the works themselves to classics in general. Binion's key finding is that for a piece of fiction to feel deep, whole, and great, as classics do, its text must be underpinned from start to finish by a subtext, or alternative reading, which calls that text itself…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 8/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990



Copyright Acknowledgments



Text and Subtext



The Trouble with Oedipus Sophocles' Oedipus the King


Notes



Blood for Blood the Gospel According to Matthew


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Lust Forever


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In Flames and in Tears Racine's Phaedra


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A Wanderer on Earth Goethe's the Sorrows of Young Werther


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On Death Row


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Like an Echo Fading Flaubert's A Simple Heart""


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Mankind Revisited Dostoyevsky's The Grand Inquisitor""


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A Lamed and Tamed Duck Ibsen's the Wild Duck


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Death Beckoning


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From Plagued Thebes to Plagued Venice


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Index


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