Gender and communication in Euripides' plays : between song and silence /
In Greek tragedy, women constantly struggle to control language. This book shows how aspects of women's communication-song, silence and secret-keeping as female verbal genres, and the challenges of speaking out of place-constitute a decisive factor in Euripides' portrayal of gender.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
296. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction: Gendered Space in Greek Tragedy; as Communication; Chapter Two: Song as Knowledge: Recognition Duets; Chapter Three: Why Am I Singing? Resistance and Other Semantics of Lyric; Chapter Four: Silence I: Gendered Categories; Chapter Five: Silence II: Solidarity and Complicity; Chapter Six: Women Out of Place; Chapter Seven: Conclusions; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index Nominum et Rerum.