Intimate Commerce : : Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy /

Intimate Commerce : : Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy / / Victoria Wohl.

Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Wohl, Victoria,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1997
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity
  • PART ONE. SOVEREIGN FATHER AND FEMALE SUBJECT IN SOPHOCLES' Trachiniae
  • ONE. "THE NOBLEST LAW"
  • TWO. THE FORECLOSED FEMALE SUBJECT
  • THREE. ALTERITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY
  • PART TWO. THE VIOLENCE OF kharis IN AESCHYLUS'S Agamemnon
  • FOUR. THE COMMODITY FETISH AND THE AGALMATIZATION OF THE VIRGIN DAUGHTER
  • FIVE. Agalma ploutou
  • SIX. FEAR AND PITY: CLYTEMNESTRA AND CASSANDRA
  • PART THREE. MOURNING AND MATRICIDE IN EURIPIDES' Alcestis
  • SEVEN. THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT: Loss, MOURNING, AND REPARATION
  • EIGHT. AGONISTIC IDENTITY AND THE SUPERLATIVE SUBJECT
  • NINE. THE MIRROR OF xenia AND THE PATERNAL SYMBOLIC
  • CONCLUSION. Too Intimate Commerce
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • INDEX LOCORUM

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