Praise, blame and identity construction in Greek Tragedy

This thesis examines the use of praise and blame in Greek tragedy as a method of identity construction. It takes sociolinguistic theory as its starting point to show that the distribution of praise and blame, an important social function of archaic poetry, can be seen as contributing to the process...

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Main Author: Cook, Kate
Published: University of Reading 2016
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698132