Bound by the city : Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis

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

"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 E...

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Other Authors: McCoskey, Denise Eileen, 1968-, Zakin, Emily
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009.
Series:SUNY series, insinuations.
Subjects:
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity > Greece.
Literature and society > Greece.
City-states > Greece.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
City-states
Gender identity
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Gender identity in literature
Literature and society
Greece
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin
  • 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
  • Jocasta's Eye and Freud's Uncanny / David Schur
  • 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 the Polis and beyond / 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.

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