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Sounding the Classics : From Sophocles to Thomas Mann by Rudolph Binion (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-100275959651

ISBN-139780275959654

eBay Product ID (ePID)1068677

Product Key Features

Number of Pages176 Pages

Publication NameSounding the Classics : from Sophocles to Thomas Mann

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral

Publication Year1997

TypeTextbook

AuthorRudolph Binion

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN97-001693

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal809.3

Table Of ContentText and Subtext The Trouble with Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus the King Blood for Blood: The Gospel According to Matthew In You My Death, In You My Life: The Tristan Legend Lust Forever: Dante's Inferno - The Francesca Episode Strange Mutations: Shakespeare's King Lear In Flames and In Tears: Racine's Phaedra A Wanderer on Earth: Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther On Death Row: Stendhal's The Red and the Black Like An Echo Fading: Flaubert's A Simple Heart Mankind Revisited: Dostoyevsky's The Grand Inquisitor A Lamed and Tamed Duck: Ibsen's The Wild Duck Death Beckoning: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice From Plagued Thebes To Plagued Venice

SynopsisThis book explores the distinctive character of the classics through a comparative study of twelve works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon., This book is a comparative study of 12 works of fiction broadly representative of the Western canon. Its aim is to discover what gives these 12 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 12 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 into question. A book for scholar, student and educated public alike, no serious reader will be able to consider what makes a classic without reference to this work.

LC Classification NumberPN3353