The Mourning Voice

by Nicole Loraux

In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators first and foremost as citizens, members of the political collective. Instead, Loraux maintains, the spectator addressed by tragedy is the individual defined primarily in terms of his or her humanity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438306
• ISBN13: 9780801438301
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher