Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra / / Charles Segal.
This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1986 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Senecan Tragedy and the Drama of the Self
- One. Language and the Unconscious: Towards a Rhetorical View of Character
- Two. Imagery and the Landscape of Desire
- Three. The Forest World
- Four. The Golden Age and Nature
- Five. Rivalry with the Father: Initiation and Failure
- Six. Parental Models: Ideal and Nightmare
- Seven. Character Structure and Symbols of Power: Sword and Scepter
- Eight. Desire, Silence, and the Speech of the Sword
- Nine. Father, Underworld, and Retribution: Phaedra and Theseus
- Ten. Seneca’s Patricide and the Trace of Writing
- Eleven. Closure, Form, and the Father
- Twelve. Conclusion: Rhetoric and Reality
- Selected Bibliography
- Index