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cover cover next page > title : Intimate Commerce : Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy author : Wohl, Victoria. publisher : University of Texas Press isbn10 | asin : 0292791143 print isbn13 : 9780292791145 ebook isbn13 : 9780585236322 language : English subject Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Femininity in literature, Man-woman relationships in literature, Literature and society--Greece, Women and literature-- Greece, Ceremonial exchange--Greece, Subjectivity in literature, Sex role in literature, W publication date : 1998 lcc : PA3136.W64 1998eb ddc : 882/.0109352042 subject : Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Femininity in literature, Man-woman relationships in literature, Literature and society--Greece, Women and literature-- Greece, Ceremonial exchange--Greece, Subjectivity in literature, Sex role in literature, W cover next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...nder, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/cover.html [26-12-2008 21:47:57] page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Intimate Commerce Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy Victoria Wohl UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS AUSTIN < previous page page_iii next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus do...er, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_iii.html [26-12-2008 21:48:11] page_iv < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Copyright © 1998 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First University of Texas Press edition, 1998 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, University of Texas Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wohl, Victoria, 1966- Intimate commerce: exchange, gender, and subjectivity in Greek tragedy / by Victoria Wohl. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-292-79113-5 (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-292-79114-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism. 2. Femininity (Psychology) in literature. 3. Man-woman relationships in literature. 4. Literature and societyGreece. 5. Women and literatureGreece. 6. Ceremonial exchangeGreece. 7. Subjectivity in literature. 8. Sex role in literature. 9. Women in literature. 10. Sophocles. Trachiniae. 11. Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 12. Euripides. I. Title. PA3136.W64 1998 882'.0109352042dc21 97-9872 < previous page page_iv next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...er, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_iv.html [26-12-2008 21:48:34] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v For my parents < previous page page_v next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...der, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_v.html [26-12-2008 21:48:49] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity The Tragic Exchange xiii Reaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation xviii The Social Economy of Exchange xxiv The Subject of Exchange xxix Part One 1 Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles' Trachiniae One 3 "The Noblest Law" The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject 3 The Final Exchange 6 Heracles: Subject under Siege 11 Hyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe < previous page page_vii next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...r, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_vii.html [26-12-2008 21:48:55] page_viii < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii Two 17 The Foreclosed Female Subject 17 Iole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange 23 Anti doron dora *: Deianira's Gift-Giving 29 Status and Gender 31 A Woman's kleos Three 38 Alterity and Intersubjectivity 38 Interpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self 41 Spatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and kalokagathia 46 The Virgin in the Garden Part Two 57 The Violence of Kharis in Aeschylus's Agamemnon Four 59 The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter 60 Marx and the Fetishized Economy 67 The Occluded Exchange 71 The Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter Five 83 Agalma ploutou: Accounting for Helen 83 The Disenchantment of the agalma 91 Khrusamoibos somaton*: The Commodification of the Male Subject file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os me...d Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_viii.html (1 of 2) [26-12-2008 21:49:00] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix Six 100 Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra 103 Androboulon kear: Clytemnestra's Transgressive Identity 110 A Lament for the Father Part Three 119 Mourning and Matricide in Euripides' Alcestis Seven the Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation 121 Eight Agonistic Identity and The Superlative Subject 132 132 The Matriarch of the oikos and Alcestis's Domestic Politics 138 The Superlative Subject and Her Husband 144 From Tragedy to the Symposium Nine 152 The Mirror of Xenia and The Paternal Symbolic 152 From Impossible kharis to the agalma Economy 159 From physis to praxis 164 Heracles and the Mirror of xenia 171 The Final Exchange Conclusion 177 Too Intimate Commerce < previous page page_ix next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...er, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_ix.html [26-12-2008 21:49:06] page_x < previous page page_x next page > Page x Notes 183 Bibliography 263 General Index 285 Index Locorum 292 < previous page page_x next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...der, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_x.html [26-12-2008 21:49:10] page_xi < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In a book so much about gifts and debts, I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to those who have helped in its completion. I am particularly indebted to my dissertation advisors, Leslie Kurke and Mark Griffith. The project first took shape under the guidance of Leslie Kurke: she started me thinking about exchange and gender, and encouraged me to pursue these topics. Throughout the process, she has been generous with her ideas; her criticism has been invaluable, and her own scholarship, with its blend of complexity and clarity, has been a standard to which I have aspired. Mark Griffith has exemplified kharis, the grace of a favor freely given: his comments on countless drafts of the manuscript have been both perceptive and prolific, and have left their clear imprint upon the final version; his unstinting generosity with his time and advice has left a mark less visible, but no less important. Further thanks are due to those who have read the manuscript along the way: Daniel Melia provided a sympathetic nonclassical perspective; audiences at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, University of Oregon, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, and University of TexasAustin heard various parts presented as talks and offered useful criticism. Conversations with Roger Travis and other members of the object-relations seminar at Berkeley (led by Janet Adelman and Nancy Chodorow) clarified my understanding of psychoanalytic theory and its application to literature. Ali Hossaini at The University of Texas Press has been both encouraging and efficient, and comments from the Press's readers and the copyeditor, Sherry Wert, were immensely helpful in the final revisions. Much of the book was < previous page page_xi next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...er, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_xi.html [26-12-2008 21:49:14] page_xii < previous page page_xii next page > Page xii written with financial assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, the Chancellor's Fellowship at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, and a Faculty Research Grant from The University of TexasSan Antonio. Finally, I owe an inexpressible debt of gratitude to my family for their unflagging interest and support, and to Erik Gunderson, who has been the sine qua non of this project. < previous page page_xii next page > file:///C|/Documents and Settings/Nidia Santos/Os meus d...r, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy/files/page_xii.html [26-12-2008 21:49:17]
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