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On tragic and Socratic irony.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On tragic and Socratic irony./
Author:	Webster, Colin.
Description:	1 online resource (157 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-02, page: 6450.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International46-02.
Subject:	Classical literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780494315781

On tragic and Socratic irony.
Webster, Colin.

On tragic and Socratic irony. - 1 online resource (157 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-02, page: 6450.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2007.

Includes bibliographical references

This thesis is an attempt to understand Socratic irony as it appears in the early Platonic dialogues by exploring the sustained imagery within Alcibiades' paean to Socrates in the Symposium. Because Plato connects Socrates with Dionysus the two constitutive parts of Socrates' ironic mode of discourse identified in the paean, pi a&d12; iotazeta&egr;iotanu and sigmapioupsilondelta a&d12; zeta&egr;iotanu, are linked to comedy and tragedy respectively. When turning to Oedipus Tyrannus to understand what Plato means by this association between Socratic irony and drama, it becomes apparent that irony in tragedy functions analogously to an oracle. Irony is speaking the truth, not sarcastically referring to its opposite. The same phenomenon occurs in the Bacchae, except in this tragedy Dionysus uses irony to play with his interlocutor, Pentheus, even while he is riddling the truth. The last section displays the similarity of this tragic mode of irony within the structure of the early Platonic dialogue, the Euthyphro, to demonstrate that Socrates is not dissimulating and irony is not a mere rhetorical figure, but part of the elenctical mechanism that leads to the same conclusion as these two tragedies: human wisdom is worth little or nothing.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780494315781Subjects--Topical Terms:

654014
Classical literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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