Nicole Loraux
The Mourning Voice: An Essay on Greek Tragedy.
Cornell University Press, 2002. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, Volume LVIII. First printing signed by translator Elizabeth Rawlings. Translation of "La voix endeuillée : essai sur la tragédie grecque" (Gallimard, 1999), with foreword by Pietro Pucci. 0801438306 xv/127 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in black-lettered gray cloth spine and brown paper-covered boards. Book and dust jacket are like new. Cornell store sticker appears on front cover. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 
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"In "The Mourning Voice," Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators first and foremost as citizens, members of the political collective. Instead, Loraux maintains, the spectator addressed by tragedy is the individual defined primarily in terms of his or her humanity, rather than in terms of affiliation with a political group. The plays, she says, involve the spectators in the emotional expressiveness of tragic suffering, thereby creating a theatrical identity. Aroused by the experience of suffering, the audience is reminded that it is witnessing a theatrical representation of the instability of the human condition―a state that Loraux asserts tragedy is uniquely suited to convey."