His recent article, ‘Undoing in Sophoclean Drama: Lusis and the Analysis of Irony’ is a significant work, which aims at advancing the criticism to the next round. His article focuses on the crucial word lusis (undoing) in Greek tragedy which has not been discussed sufficiently, as a site of investigation into how Sophoclean irony works. In the article, Goldhill first examins the meaning of an ordinary word, lusis, and exhibits the interaction between this term and the tragic plot. He then turns to a more general level, analyzing the standard model of dramatic irony which, in his argument, is significant in reading Sophoclean tragedy. Through his examination of the language and the irony, Goldhill finally calls into question the tragic ambivalence. As Goldhill suggests in the article, the analysis of the language, especially the word lusis, helps usher us into the possible meaning of tragic ambivalence and Sophoclean
His recent article, ‘Undoing in Sophoclean Drama: Lusis and the Analysis of Irony’ is a significant work, which aims at advancing the criticism to the next round. His article focuses on the crucial word lusis (undoing) in Greek tragedy which has not been discussed sufficiently, as a site of investigation into how Sophoclean irony works. In the article, Goldhill first examins the meaning of an ordinary word, lusis, and exhibits the interaction between this term and the tragic plot. He then turns to a more general level, analyzing the standard model of dramatic irony which, in his argument, is significant in reading Sophoclean tragedy. Through his examination of the language and the irony, Goldhill finally calls into question the tragic ambivalence. As Goldhill suggests in the article, the analysis of the language, especially the word lusis, helps usher us into the possible meaning of tragic ambivalence and Sophoclean