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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778331403321

Titolo

Bound by the city [[electronic resource] ] : Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis / / edited by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Emily Zakin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009

ISBN

1-4384-2717-4

1-4416-2135-0

Descrizione fisica

vii, 344 p

Collana

Insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature

Altri autori (Persone)

McCoskeyDenise Eileen <1968->

ZakinEmily

Disciplina

882/.0109353

Soggetti

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Gender identity in literature

Gender identity - Greece

Literature and society - Greece

City-states - Greece

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

City farewell: genos, polis and gender in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women / Peter Burian -- Antigone: the work of literature and the history of subjectivity / Charles Shepherdson -- The Laius complex / Mark Buchan -- Freud's Uncanny and Jocasta's Eye / David Schur -- The mystical foundation of the polis: sexual difference and the aporia of justice in Sophocles' Antigone / Victoria Wohl -- Tragedy, natural law, and sexual difference in Hegel / Elaine P. Miller -- Marrying the city: intimate strangers and the fury of democracy / Emily Zakin -- Playing the Cassandra: prophecies of the feminine in Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Pascale-Anne Brault -- The loss of Abandonment in Sophocles' Electra / Denise Eileen McCoskey -- Electra in exile / Kirk Ormand -- Orestes and the in-laws / Mark Griffith.