Oedipus Abuser: Insult and Embodied Aesthetics in Sophocles

Tragedy contributes something unique to intersections of the body and language, and this contribution has to do with the aesthetics of abuse. These aesthetic effects are dependent on the layered quality of dramatic semiosis, which builds up from the language of the text to the possibilities of its p...

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Main Author: Nancy Worman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2014-02-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/1237