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SENECA’S MEDEA AND THE TRAGIC SELF
by
Lisl Walsh
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CLASSICS)
May 2011
Copyright 2010 Lisl Walsh
Object Description
| Title | Seneca's Medea and the tragic self |
| Author | Walsh, Lisl |
| Author email | lislwals@usc.edu; lisl.walsh@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Classics |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-02-16 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-04-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Boyle, Anthony |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Habinek, Thomas Schor, Hilary |
| Abstract | The dissertation addresses four aspects of Seneca's Medea character: her gender performance, her divinity, her foreignness, and her relationship to the past. From an analysis of these four facets of her identity, the dissertation argues that Seneca's Medea character is forced to define her identity in isolation, without the sounding board of social interaction. Through a close reading of the final monologue, the dissertation concludes that Medea fails in her attempt to construct a robust self which can take ownership of its actions in the present and maintain itself without social recognition. The epilogue postulates that Medea's character ultimately displays the limitations both of identity in isolation and of a performance-based self. |
| Keyword | Seneca; Medea; gender; tragedy; ethnicity; memory; self; body |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3725 |
| Rights | Walsh, Lisl |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Walsh-4372 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Walsh-4372.pdf |
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| Full text | SENECA’S MEDEA AND THE TRAGIC SELF by Lisl Walsh A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CLASSICS) May 2011 Copyright 2010 Lisl Walsh |
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