02356nam 2200637Ia 450 991095633110332120200520144314.0978143842511514384251129781441615770144161577610.1515/9781438425115(CKB)1000000000786242(OCoLC)429920694(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588816(SSID)ssj0000275051(PQKBManifestationID)11221119(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275051(PQKBWorkID)10330974(PQKB)10070568(MiAaPQ)EBC3408266(Au-PeEL)EBL3408266(CaPaEBR)ebr10588816(DE-B1597)681573(DE-B1597)9781438425115(Perlego)2671504(EXLCZ)99100000000078624220080620d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe wound and the witness the rhetoric of torture /Jennifer R. Ballengee1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20091 online resource (203 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438424910 1438424914 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.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.Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.Classical literatureHistory and criticismTorture in literatureClassical literatureHistory and criticism.Torture in literature.880.9/355Ballengee Jennifer R.1968-1813880MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956331103321The wound and the witness4367365UNINA