ONE. "THE NOBLEST LAW"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity xiii
5. PART ONE. SOVEREIGN FATHER AND FEMALE SUBJECT IN SOPHOCLES' Trachiniae
6. ONE. "THE NOBLEST LAW" 1
7. TWO. THE FORECLOSED FEMALE SUBJECT 17
8. THREE. ALTERITY AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY 38
9. PART TWO. THE VIOLENCE OF kharis IN AESCHYLUS'S Agamemnon
10. FOUR. THE COMMODITY FETISH AND THE AGALMATIZATION OF THE VIRGIN DAUGHTER 59
11. FIVE. Agalma ploutou 83
12. SIX. FEAR AND PITY: CLYTEMNESTRA AND CASSANDRA 100
13. PART THREE. MOURNING AND MATRICIDE IN EURIPIDES' Alcestis
14. SEVEN. THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT: Loss, MOURNING, AND REPARATION 121
15. EIGHT. AGONISTIC IDENTITY AND THE SUPERLATIVE SUBJECT 132
16. NINE. THE MIRROR OF xenia AND THE PATERNAL SYMBOLIC 152
17. CONCLUSION. Too Intimate Commerce 177
18. NOTES 183
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 263
20. GENERAL INDEX 285
21. INDEX LOCORUM 292