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UNINA9910809840603321 |
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Autore |
Ballengee Jennifer R. <1968-> |
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Titolo |
The wound and the witness [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of torture / / Jennifer R. Ballengee |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4384-2511-2 |
1-4416-1577-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Classical literature - History and criticism |
Torture in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The legal body : the symbolic corpse in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone -- The political body : pain and punishment in Sophocles' Oedipus rex and Oedipus at Colonus -- The erotic body : mutilation and desire in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon -- The moral body : the figure of suffering in Prudentius' Peristephanon liber. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts. |
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