Gender and Communication in Euripides' Plays - Mnemosyne Supplements: Book 296

Informationen zum Autor J. H. Kim On Chong-Gossard , Ph.D. (1999) in Classical Philology, University of Michigan, is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Research interests include gender in Greek tragedy, and Roman sexual scandals in Suetonius' biographies. Klappentext The prominent role of women in Greek drama has always fascinated readers. This book proposes that women in Euripidesa (TM) plays communicate in ways constructed by the tragic genre itself as a ~female.a (TM) Yet these womena (TM)s words are surprisingly not uniformly dangerous or excessively emotional, as has traditionally been thought. Rather, Euripidesa (TM) women resort to a ~femalea (TM) ways of talking in order to enable others to understand them and their unique point-of-view. Aspects of womena (TM)s speecha "song, silence and secret-keeping as female verbal genres, and the challenges of speaking out of placea "contribute to Euripidesa (TM) portrayal of women as different from men. Originating in a culture where putting women under scrutiny was part of daily life, Euripidesa (TM) tragedies dramatise womena (TM)s constant struggle to control language.

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• Authors: Chong-Gossard, J H Kim On Chong-Gossard, J. H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2008
• EAN: 9789004168800
• ISBN: 978-90-0-416880-0
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity