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Becoming Female : the Male Body in Greek Tragedy.
Becoming Female, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to ret...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Becoming Female, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure of Heracles in Sophocles' ""The Women of Trachis"", an exemplary specimen of the tragic process of becoming female, who exhibits many of the central issues considered in the book. The male hero is, in. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (415 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781472521248 1472521242 9781472521231 1472521234 |