[PDF.13pf] The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (New Directions in German Studies)

The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (New Directions in German Studies)

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 | #1625754 in Books |  2014-08-28 |  2014-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.51 x.58 x5.51l,.0 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| "Stunning Reappraisal" and more|By joe|Here are two sentences from the publisher's description of the book: "If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure." This is, essentially, a new insight into something fundamental to good old Western Civ.| ||"In this highly reflective and provocative study, Weineck offers a series of consummate literary analyses, which interrogate conventional truisms of psychoanalytic discourse and political theory. With a brilliant shift in perspective, The Tragedy of Father

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, the legal father, and th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West (New Directions in German Studies)   |  Silke-Maria Weineck. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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