Taking One’s Bow: Performing Things in Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy
A version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney’s A Cure at Troy explores the ways in which a bow, a mere thing, introduces and allows tragedy. From rag-and-bone man, Philoctetes thus becomes the main protagonist of a play that will guarantee a return to order. Meanwhile, the thing proliferates t...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_5921 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.5921 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.5921 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/5921 2019-04-05T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe8e https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Taking One’s Bow: Performing Things in Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Wallart, Kerry-Jane A version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney’s A Cure at Troy explores the ways in which a bow, a mere thing, introduces and allows tragedy. From rag-and-bone man, Philoctetes thus becomes the main protagonist of a play that will guarantee a return to order. Meanwhile, the thing proliferates to such an extent that it becomes the only apt word in a language that loses all momentum, that fragments into inarticulateness. The thing, however, retrieves and restores meaning in passages where quiet gestures bring back on stage the vision of the world. A Cure at Troy est la traduction libre livrée par Seamus Heaney du Philoctète de Sophocle, et le poète irlandais y scrute la manière dont un arc, une simple chose, introduit et permet la tragédie. De chiffonnier, Philoctète devient ainsi le protagoniste d’une pièce qui garantit le retour à l’ordre. Cependant, la chose prolifère à tel point qu’elle devient le seul mot valable dans une langue qui a perdu toute validité, qui se fragmente et verse dans l’inarticulé. La chose récupère et restore le sens dans des passages où le geste, silencieux, ramène sur la scène la vision du monde. |
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A version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney’s A Cure at Troy explores the ways in which a bow, a mere thing, introduces and allows tragedy. From rag-and-bone man, Philoctetes thus becomes the main protagonist of a play that will guarantee a return to order. Meanwhile, the thing proliferates to such an extent that it becomes the only apt word in a language that loses all momentum, that fragments into inarticulateness. The thing, however, retrieves and restores meaning in passages where quiet gestures bring back on stage the vision of the world. |
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