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The wound and the witness : the rhetoric of torture / Jennifer R. Ballengee.
Van Pelt Library PA3015.T67 B35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballengee, Jennifer R., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--History and criticism.
- Classical literature.
- Torture in literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 190 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- The legal body : the symbolic corpse in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
- The political body : pain and punishment in Sophocles' Oedipus rex and Oedipus at Colonus
- The erotic body : mutilation and desire in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon
- The moral body : the figure of suffering in Prudentius's Peristephanon liber.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438424910
- 1438424914
- OCLC:
- 233173024
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