McCoskey / Zakin Bound by the City

Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Formation of the Polis
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2717-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Explores the connections between sexual difference and political structure in ancient Greek tragedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCoskey, Denise Eileen

Zakin, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin

1. City Farewell!: Genos, Polis, and Gender in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes and Euripides’ Phoenician Women
Peter Burian

2. Antigone: The Work of Literature and the History of Subjectivity
Charles Shepherdson

3. The Laius Complex
Mark Buchan

4. Jocasta’s Eye and Freud’s Uncanny
David Schur

5. Sexual Difference and the Aporia of Justice in Sophocles’ Antigone
Victoria Wohl

6. Tragedy, Natural Law, and Sexual Difference in Hegel
Elaine P. Miller

7. Marrying the City: Intimate Strangers and the Fury of Democracy
Emily Zakin

8. Playing the Cassandra: Prophecies of the Feminine in the Polis and Beyond
Pascale-Anne Brault

9. The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles’ Electra
Denise Eileen McCoskey

10. Electra in Exile
Kirk Ormand

11. Orestes and the In-laws
Mark Griffith

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

At Miami University, Denise Eileen McCoskey is Associate Professor of Classics and Affiliate Black World Studies, and Emily Zakin is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Zakin is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Mary C. Rawlinson) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman.