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Author : Bonnie Honig
Release : 2013-05-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 976/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Antigone, Interrupted by : Bonnie Honig
Download or read book Antigone, Interrupted written by Bonnie Honig. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone, exploring the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism.
Author : Wendy Bustamante
Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 113/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Antigone Uninterrupted by : Wendy Bustamante
Download or read book Antigone Uninterrupted written by Wendy Bustamante. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer. We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus. While other works boldly claim to be progressively moving beyond the scope of tragic themes of mortality, Antigone Uninterrupted demonstrates that reading the Theban Plays in the order of Antigone’s biography (so to speak) expands our understanding of what Antigone could tell us about contemporary issues. This demonstration involves Hegel’s discussion of Antigone in his Phenomenology of Spirit, responses to Hegel on this point, and the author’s assessment that Antigone makes arguments in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus that ought to be illuminated in contemporary scholarship. This book examines the three Theban Plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone) in the order by which Antigone’s story is a continuous development of character and age, a unique approach for reasons the author identifies, but one she argues would be beneficial to future scholarship. Providing illuminating readings of both Sophocles’ tragedies and some key modern interpretations of the plays, this book holds broad appeal for those interested in subjects such as political science, gender theory, queer theory, literary criticism, theology, and sociology, to name a few.
Author : Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Release : 2021-07-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Antigone in the Americas by : Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Download or read book Antigone in the Americas written by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro. This book was released on 2021-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles's classical tragedy, Antigone, is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone, when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone, one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.
Author : Katharina Pewny
Release : 2016-10-10
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Occupy Antigone by : Katharina Pewny
Download or read book Occupy Antigone written by Katharina Pewny. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides some of today's most relevant views on Sophocles' classic and its many interpretations from an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural perspective. It critically investigates the work of artists and theoreticians who have occupied Antigone ever since she appeared onstage in antiquity, dealing with questions of the relationship between performance and philosophy and of how Antigone can be appropriated to criticize reigning discourses. Occupy Antigone makes an original contribution to the vibrant life the mythical figure enjoys in contemporary performance practice and theory.
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Release : 2017-04-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 068/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal by :
Download or read book Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal written by . This book was released on 2017-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded through a dialogue with coeval European events. As concerns Portugal, this results principally in political and feminist approaches to the texts. Since the importation of the Sophoclean model is often indirect, the volume includes comparisons with intermediate sources, namely French (Cocteau, Anouilh) and Spanish (María Zambrano), which were extremely influential on the many and diversified versions written in Portugal during this period.
