Greek tragedy, sexual difference, and the formation of the polis /
edited by Denise Eileen McCoskey, Emily Zakin
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
c2009
vii, 344 p. ;
24 cm
SUNY series, insinuations : philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin -- City farewell! : genos, polis, and gender in Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women / Peter Burian -- Antigone : the work of literature and the history of subjectivity / Charles Shepherdson -- The Laius complex / Mark Buchan -- Jocasta's Eye and Freud's Uncanny / David Schur -- Sexual difference and the aporia of justice in Sophocles' Antigone / Victoria Wohl -- Tragedy, natural law, and sexual difference in Hegel / Elaine P. Miller -- Marrying the city : intimate strangers and the fury of democracy / Emily Zakin -- Playing the Cassandra : prophecies of the feminine in the Polis and beyond / Pascale-Anne Brault -- The loss of abandonment in Sophocles' Electra / Denise Eileen McCoskey -- Electra in exile / Kirk Ormand -- Orestes and the in-laws / Mark Griffith