Bound by the City

At Miami University, Denise Eileen McCoskey is Associate Professor of Classics and Affiliate Black World Studies, and Emily Zakin is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Zakin is the coeditor (with Ellen K. Feder and Mary C. Rawlinson) of Derrida and Feminism: Recasting the Question of Woman.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDenise Eileen McCoskey and Emily Zakin1. City Farewell!: Genos, Polis, and Gender in Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes and Euripides’ Phoenician WomenPeter Burian2. Antigone: The Work of Literature and the History of SubjectivityCharles Shepherdson 3. The Laius ComplexMark Buchan 4. Jocasta’s Eye and Freud’s UncannyDavid Schur 5. Sexual Difference and the Aporia of Justice in Sophocles’ AntigoneVictoria Wohl 6. Tragedy, Natural Law, and Sexual Difference in HegelElaine P. Miller 7. Marrying the City: Intimate Strangers and the Fury of DemocracyEmily Zakin 8. Playing the Cassandra: Prophecies of the Feminine in the Polis and BeyondPascale-Anne Brault 9. The Loss of Abandonment in Sophocles’ ElectraDenise Eileen McCoskey 10. Electra in ExileKirk Ormand 11. Orestes and the In-lawsMark Griffith List of ContributorsIndex

"…considers key ancient tragedies and the concept of tragedy itself by means of contemporary Freudian, intertextual and gendered perspectives. In so doing, the collection speaks to the multiple methods of studying classical works and thus of understanding these tragedies as they were then performed and as we experience them now." — Polis"This collection, written by distinguished scholars in ancient studies, focuses on the tragic intersection of Athenian civic values and ideas of sexual difference. Unfolding the complexities of the tragedies of the houses of Laius and Atreus, the contributors draw on history, psychoanalysis, and theory to shed new light on how gender defined the culture and politics of the city state." — Rebecca Bushnell, author of Tragedy: A Short Introduction