Intimate commerce : exchange, gender, and subjectivity in Greek tragedy /
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Author / Creator: | Wohl, Victoria, 1966- |
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Edition: | 1st University of Texas Press ed. |
Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 1998. |
Description: | xxxvii, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2896394 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Part 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index