Intimate commerce : exchange, gender, and subjectivity in Greek tragedy /

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Author / Creator:Wohl, Victoria, 1966-
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
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ISBN:0292791135 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292791143 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-284) and index.
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