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Intimate commerce : exchange, gender, and subjectivity in Greek tragedy /

Analyzes how the exchange of women between men in Greek tragedies was portrayed as disastrous for both the men and women involved and argues that the use of women as objects of commerce affirmed the reigning ideologies of the era. -- Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wohl, Victoria, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1998.
Edición:1st University of Texas Press ed.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity
  • pt. 1. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles' Trachiniae. 1. "The Noblest Law": The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject. 2. The Foreclosed Female Subject. 3. Alterity and Intersubjectivity
  • pt. 2. The Violence of kharis in Aeschylus's Agamemnon. 4. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter. 5. Agalma ploutou: Accounting for Helen. 6. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra
  • pt. 3. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides' Alcestis. 7. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation. 8. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject. 9. The Mirror of xenia and the Paternal Symbolic. Conclusion: Too Intimate Commerce.