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The wound and the witness : the rhetoric of torture / Jennifer R. Ballengee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ballengee, Jennifer R., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical literature--History and criticism.
- Classical literature.
- Torture in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the rhetorical functions of torture and the witnessing of torture in both classical texts and contemporary contexts.
- 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' Peristephanon liber.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438425115
- 1438425112
- 9781441615770
- 1441615776
- OCLC:
- 429920694
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