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Author Ballengee, Jennifer R., 1968-

Title The wound and the witness : the rhetoric of torture / Jennifer R. Ballengee.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 190 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index.
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.
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Subject Classical literature -- History and criticism.
Classical literature.
Torture in literature.
Torture in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Ballengee, Jennifer R., 1968- Wound and the witness. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2009 9781438424910 1438424914 (DLC) 2008027671 (OCoLC)233173024
ISBN 9781441615770 (electronic book)
1441615776 (electronic book)
1438424914 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781438424910 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781438424910 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781438425115