Bound by the city
Subtitle: Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis
By: edited by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Emily Zakin.
Contributors: McCoskey, Denise Eileen, 1968-; Zakin, Emily.
Series: Insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438427119
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Gender identity in literature; Gender identity -- Greece; Literature and society -- Greece; City-states -- Greece
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin; title: City farewell : genos, polis and gender in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women / Peter Burian; title: Antigone : the work of literature and the history of subjectivity / Charles Shepherdson; title: The Laius complex / Mark Buchan; title: Freud's Uncanny and Jocasta's Eye / David Schur; title: The mystical foundation of the polis : sexual difference and the aporia of justice in Sophocles' Antigone / Victoria Wohl; title: Tragedy, natural law, and sexual difference in Hegel / Elaine P. Miller; title: Marrying the city : intimate strangers and the fury of democracy / Emily Zakin; title: Playing the Cassandra : prophecies of the feminine in Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Pascale-Anne Brault; title: The loss of Abandonment in Sophocles' Electra / Denise Eileen McCoskey; title: Electra in exile / Kirk Ormand; title: Orestes and the in-laws / Mark Griffith.