{"product_id":"mocked-with-death-tragic-overliving-from-sophocles-to-milton-hardcover","title":"Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily R. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, Adam asks, \"Why do I overlive?\" Adam's anguished question is the basis for a critical analysis of living too long as a neglected but central theme in Western tragic literature. Emily Wilson examines this experience in works by Milton and by four of his literary predecessors: Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, and Shakespeare. Each of these writers composed works in which the central character undergoes unbearable suffering or loss, hopes for death, but goes on living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMocked with Death\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear that tragic works need not find their moral and aesthetic conclusion in death and that, in some instances, tragedy consists of living on rather than dying. Oedipus's survival at the end of \u003ci\u003eOedipus Tyrannus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOedipus Coloneus\u003c\/i\u003e is clearly one such instance; another Euripides' \u003ci\u003eHeracles\u003c\/i\u003e. In Seneca's \u003ci\u003eHercules Furens\u003c\/i\u003e, overliving becomes an expression of anxieties about both political and literary belatedness. In \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, the sense of overliving produces a divided sense of self. For Milton, in both \u003ci\u003eSamson Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, overliving is a theological problem arising from the tension between mortal conceptions of time and divine providence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach writer in this tradition, Wilson concludes, attempts to diminish the anxieties arising from living past one's time but cannot entirely minimize them. Tragedies of overliving remain disturbing because they remind us that life is rarely as neat as we expect and hope it be and that endings often come too late. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily R. Wilson \u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757473956128,"sku":"9780801879647","price":100.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f32d24b51dd18a3f09407787a481afc5.webp?v=1780103916","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mocked-with-death-tragic-overliving-from-sophocles-to-milton-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}