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

ISBN: 1628928182

ISBN13: 9781628928181

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

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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,...

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