In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine.

. . . Each of his points is grounded in a careful examination of a specific text, and most of the texts are well-known to American audiences."—Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh

In The Memory of Tiresias, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality.

... Tiresias , the blind hermaphroditic prophet , warns first Oedipus in Oedipus Rex , then Cleon in Antigone . Tiresias ' gift of fore- sight allowed him / her to see the character flaws of mortals and predict events that had not yet ...

Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has come to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualities." "This book argues for the emergence of a Tiresian poetics at the end of the nineteenth century.

... Tiresias , an important figure in the Oedipus myth . One aspect of the myth of Tiresias , the variant accounts of how he came to be blind , shows how structural - psychoanalytic analysis can be applied to differ- ent versions of the ...

... Tiresias , the protagonist of the poem and its unifying symbol . TIRESIAS Tiresias , according to Eliot , is the central figure in the poem , an interested spectator of the modern wasteland , and ' what Tiresias sees is the substance of ...

... Tiresias climaxes his rivalry with the gods. In Oedipus the King, Tiresias's arrival initiates the conflict between Apollo's signs and Oedipus's voice—a conflict that strikes at the roots of the city's order, which is based on the ...

... Tiresias is revered not only as all - knowing but as a protector , as the final hope of salvation for Thebes . But this apparent reverence is destabilized in two ways . First there is Tiresias ' strange response to Oedipus ' speech ...