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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811024803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-4384-2717-4; 1-4416-2135-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection offers a vibrant exploration of the bonds between sexual difference and political structure in Greek tragedy. In looking at how the acts of violence and tortured kinship relations are depicted in the work of all three major Greek tragic playwrights—Aeschylus, Sophocles, ; and Euripides—the contributors shed light on the workings and failings of the Greek polis, and explore the means by which sexual difference and the city take shape in relation to each other. The volume complements and expands the efforts of current feminist interpretations of Antigone and the Oresteia by considering the meanings of tragedy for ancient Athenian audiences while also unveiling the reverberations of Greek tragedy's formulations and dilemmas in modern political life and for contemporary political philosophy.