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"I regard this as one of the most exciting books on Greek tragedy that I have seen in the last ten or fifteen years and as one of the most subtle and penetrating feminist readings of Greek literature that I have encountered." —Mark Griffith, Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedy—and almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses. But why do the tragedies always represent the transferal of women as disastrous? Victoria Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' Trachiniae, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and Euripides' Alcestis. She shows how the attempts of women in these plays to become active subjects rather than passive objects of exchange inevitably fail. While these failures seem to validate male hegemony, the women's actions, however futile, blur the distinction between male subject and female object, calling into question the very nature of the tragic self. What the tragedies thu

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Author

Victoria Wohl; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Austin, Tex. : University Of Texas Press, 1998.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585236322

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism