Bound by the city : Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis

Publication Data

• Title Bound by the city : Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis
• Contributors Denise Eileen McCoskey, Emily Zakin
• Publisher SUNY Press
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Albany, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

City farewell: genos, polis and gender in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women / Peter Burian
Antigone: the work of literature and the history of subjectivity / Charles Shepherdson
The Laius complex / Mark Buchan
Freud's Uncanny and Jocasta's Eye / David Schur
The mystical foundation of the polis: sexual difference and the aporia of justice in Sophocles' Antigone / Victoria Wohl
Tragedy, natural law, and sexual difference in Hegel / Elaine P. Miller
Marrying the city: intimate strangers and the fury of democracy / Emily Zakin
Playing the Cassandra: prophecies of the feminine in Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Pascale-Anne Brault
The loss of Abandonment in Sophocles' Electra / Denise Eileen McCoskey
Electra in exile / Kirk Ormand
Orestes and the in-laws / Mark Griffith.

Topics

• Greek drama (Tragedy) :: History and criticism
• Gender identity in literature
• Gender identity :: Greece
• Literature and society :: Greece
• City-states :: Greece

Bound by the city : Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis. ISBN 9781438427119. Published by SUNY Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.