Gender and communication in Euripides' plays : between song and silence / by J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chong-Gossard, J. H. Kim On (James Harvey Kim On), 1969-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 296.

Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; v. 296

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides.

Euripides--Characters--Women.

Women in literature.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The prominent role of women in Greek drama has always fascinated readers. This book proposes that women in Euripides’ plays communicate in ways constructed by the tragic genre itself as ‘female.’ Yet these women’s words are surprisingly not uniformly dangerous or excessively emotional, as has traditionally been thought. Rather, Euripides’ women resort to ‘female’ ways of talking in order to enable others to understand them and their unique point-of-view. Aspects of women’s speech—song, silence and secret-keeping as female verbal genres, and the challenges of speaking out of place—contribute to Euripides’ portrayal of women as different from men. Originating in a culture where putting women under scrutiny was part of daily life, Euripides’ tragedies dramatise women’s constant struggle to control language.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter One. Introduction: Gendered Space In Greek Tragedy As Communication / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Two. Song As Knowledge: Recognition Duets / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Three. Why Am I Singing? Resistance And Other Semantics Of Lyric / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Four. Silence I: Gendered Categories / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Five. Silence II: Solidarity And Complicity / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Six. Women Out Of Place / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Chapter Seven. Conclusions / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Bibliography / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Index Locorum / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard

Index Nominum Et Rerum / J.H.K.O. Chong-Gossard.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-254) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-39948-9

9786612399480

90-474-4276-8

OCLC:

647871820

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004168800.i-263 DOI