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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cawthorn, Katrina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction: Imagining the Classical Body; The cultured body; The cultured body versus the material body; Why study the ancient body?; The ancient body -- what does it comprise?; The idealising tendency -- Greece as origin; The body theatricalised -- the male becomes female; The 'corporeal style' of tragedy; 1. The Suffering Body -- Logos and Soma; Part 1. The place of the body in tragedy; Distinctions between pain and suffering, epic and tragedy; Displaying the afflicted body. 
505 8 |a Part 2. The power of logos and soma -- the flesh of wordsThe embodied voice; The role of logos and soma in the enactment of suffering; The body within and beyond logos; 2. The Female Body and the Dissonance of Suffering; Part 1. Woman's intimate relation to 'the body'; Part 2. The female body and suffering; The susceptible female body; Part 3. Mimesis, tragic dissonance, and the female body; 3. The Precarious Male Body; Part 1. The male relation to the body; Part 2. Suffering and the male body; Afflictions: the transmission of suffering from female to male; Part 3. Dissonant heroes. 
505 8 |a 4. Heracles' Body -- Becoming FemaleThe ambiguities of Heracles; The feminine within -- Heracles' hamartia; 5. Heracles' Body -- Becoming Male?; 6. Coda: Tragedy's Engendered Dissolutions; The effects of tragedy: the audience becomes female; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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