Interrogating Antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism

Interrogating Antigone in postmodern philosophy and criticism / [edited by] S.E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė

With the increasing artistic and scholarly interest in Sophocles' Antigones in the twenty‐first century, this collection of chapters tackles the difficult question of how to interpret the actions and character of Antigone, given the recent insights provided by Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Žižek,...

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Other Authors: Wilmer, S. E. (Editor), Žukauskaitė, Audronė, 1968- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
Series:Classical presences.
Subjects:
Antigone > (Mythological character)
Postmodernism (Literature)
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Philosophy and Politics. Antigone's political legacies : abjection in defiance of mourning / Tina Chanter ; Naked life : Arendt and the exile at Colonus / Cecilia Sjöholm ; Biopolitics : Antigone's claim / Audronė Žukauskaitė ; The body politic : the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics / Eugene O'Brien
  • Part II. Psychoanalysis and the Law. Lacan's Antigone / Terry Eagleton ; Psychoanalysing Antigone / Mark Griffith ; One amongst many : the ethical significance of Antigone and the films of Lars Von Trier / Calum Neill ; Antigone, Antigone : Lacan and the structure of the law / Ahuvia Kahane ; Sophocles' Antigone and the democratic voice / Judith Fletcher ; Antigone and the law : legal theory and the ambiguities of performance / Klaas Tindemans
  • Part III. Gender and Kinship. Between myth and history : the tragedy of Antigone / Luce Irigaray ; Antigone with(out) Jocaste / Bracha L. Ettinger ; Autochthonous Antigone : breaking ground / Liz Appel ; Antigone and her brother : what sort of special relationship? / Isabelle Torrance ; Reclaiming femininity : Antigone's "choice" in art and art history / Martina Meyer
  • Part IV. Translations, Adaptations, and Performance. Reading Antigone in translation : text, paratext, intertext / Deborah H. Roberts ; Speed and tragedy in Cocteau and Sophocles / Sean D. Kirkland ; Politicizing Antigone / Erika Fischer-Lichte ; From ancient Greek drama to Argentina's "Dirty War" : Antígona Furiosa : on bodies and the state / María Florencia Nelli ; Revolutionary muse : Fémi Òsófisan's Tègònni : an African Antigone / Astrid Van Weyenberg ; Performing Antigone in the twenty-first century / S.E. Wilmer.

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