The wound and the witness
Subtitle: the rhetoric of torture
By: Jennifer R. Ballengee.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781438424910
Subjects: Classical literature -- History and criticism; Torture in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legal body : the symbolic corpse in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone; title: The political body : pain and punishment in Sophocles' Oedipus rex and Oedipus at Colonus; title: The erotic body : mutilation and desire in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon; title: The moral body : the figure of suffering in Prudentius' Peristephanon liber.