Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra
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Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra

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  2. English
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Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra

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This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.

Originally published in 1986.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction: Senecan Tragedy and the Drama of the Self
  6. 1. Language and the Unconscious: Towards a Rhetorical View of Character
  7. 2. Imagery and the Landscape of Desire
  8. 3. The Forest World
  9. 4. The Golden Age and Nature
  10. 5. Rivalry with the Father: Initiation and Failure
  11. 6. Parental Models: Ideal and Nightmare
  12. 7. Character Structure and Symbols of Power: Sword and Scepter
  13. 8. Desire, Silence, and the Speech of the Sword
  14. 9. Father, Underworld, and Retribution: Phaedra and Theseus
  15. 10. Seneca's Patricide and the Trace of Writing
  16. 11. Closure, Form, and the Father
  17. 12. Conclusion: Rhetoric and Reality
  18. Selected Bibliography
  19. Index