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Author:   Denise Eileen McCoskey ,  Emily Zakin
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9781438427119

ISBN 10:   1438427115
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin 1. City Farewell!: Genos, Polis, and Gender in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women Peter Burian 2. Antigone: The Work of Literature and the History of Subjectivity Charles Shepherdson 3. The Laius Complex Mark Buchan 4. Jocasta's Eye and Freud's Uncanny David Schur 5. Sexual Difference and the Aporia of Justice in Sophocles' Antigone Victoria Wohl 6. Tragedy, Natural Law, and Sexual Difference in Hegel Elaine P. Miller 7. Marrying the City: Intimate Strangers and the Fury of Democracy Emily Zakin 8. Playing the Cassandra: Prophecies of the Feminine in the Polis and Beyond Pascale-Anne Brault 9. The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles' Electra Denise Eileen McCoskey 10. Electra in Exile Kirk Ormand 11. Orestes and the In-laws Mark Griffith List of Contributors Index

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...considers key ancient tragedies and the concept of tragedy itself by means of contemporary Freudian, intertextual and gendered perspectives. In so doing, the collection speaks to the multiple methods of studying classical works and thus of understanding these tragedies as they were then performed and as we experience them now. - Polis This collection, written by distinguished scholars in ancient studies, focuses on the tragic intersection of Athenian civic values and ideas of sexual difference. Unfolding the complexities of the tragedies of the houses of Laius and Atreus, the contributors draw on history, psychoanalysis, and theory to shed new light on how gender defined the culture and politics of the city state. - Rebecca Bushnell, author of Tragedy: A Short Introduction

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At Miami University, Denise Eileen McCoskey is Associate Professor of Classics and Affiliate Black World Studies, and Emily Zakin is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Zakin is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Mary C. Rawlinson) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman.

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