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- catalog abstract ""In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century B.C. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11330733.
- catalog coverage "Athens (Greece) Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century B.C. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. City of Words: Speech in the Athenian Polis -- Ch. 2. Gender and Verbal Genres in Ancient Greece -- Ch. 3. Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Ch. 4. At the House Door: Phaedra and the Politics of Reputation -- Ch. 5. Women's Wordy Strife: Gossip and Invective in Euripides' Andromache -- Ch. 6. Obscenity, Gender, and Social Status in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae -- Ch. 7. Conclusion.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-284) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, [4], 293 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Spoken like a woman.".
- catalog identifier "0691017301 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spoken like a woman.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog relation "Spoken like a woman.".
- catalog spatial "Athens (Greece) Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Athens".
- catalog spatial "Greece Athens.".
- catalog subject "882/.0109352042 21".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Greek drama History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Greek language Sex differences.".
- catalog subject "Greek language Spoken Greek.".
- catalog subject "PA3136 .M39 1999".
- catalog subject "Sex role in literature.".
- catalog subject "Speech in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Greece Athens History.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Greece Athens.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. City of Words: Speech in the Athenian Polis -- Ch. 2. Gender and Verbal Genres in Ancient Greece -- Ch. 3. Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Ch. 4. At the House Door: Phaedra and the Politics of Reputation -- Ch. 5. Women's Wordy Strife: Gossip and Invective in Euripides' Andromache -- Ch. 6. Obscenity, Gender, and Social Status in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae -- Ch. 7. Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama / Laura McClure.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".