The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West

by Silke-Maria Weineck

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association.

Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from its integration of law, body, and affect--in the affirmative model of fatherhood, the biological father,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628928182
• ISBN13: 9781628928181
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"