Physical Pain and Justice: Greek Tragedy and the Russian Novel

ISBN-13: 9781498568456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

Gary Rosenshield

Opis

This study examines the treatment of physical pain in a selection of classical Greek plays and nineteenth-century Russian novels. The author highlights parallels between these Greek and Russian texts and analyzes how they employ pain to investigate the legitimacy of the state and the justice of the world order.