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Author Wohl, Victoria, 1966-

Title Intimate commerce : exchange, gender, and subjectivity in Greek tragedy / by Victoria Wohl
Edition 1st University of Texas Press ed
Published Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 294 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and indexes
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject 880-01 Sophocles. Trachiniae.
880-01/(S Ευριπίδης, π. 480-406 π.Χ. Άλκηστις
Aeschylus. Agamemnon.
Euripides. Alcestis.
SUBJECT Agamemnon (Aeschylus) fast
Alcestis (Euripides) fast
Trachiniae (Sophocles) fast
Subject Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Femininity in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Literature and society -- Greece
Women and literature -- Greece
Ceremonial exchange -- Greece
Subjectivity in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Ceremonial exchange
Femininity in literature
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Literature and society
Man-woman relationships in literature
Sex role in literature
Subjectivity in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Tragedies.
Grieks.
Sekserol.
Zelfbeeld.
Griekse oudheid.
18.43 ancient Greek literature.
Frau Motiv
Tragödie
Frau
Gender roles
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
Femininity in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Greece
Griechisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585236321
9780585236322
9780292799974
0292799977