Antigone

This book explores Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present, examining key themes, modern analysis, and postmodern receptions of the heroine in the arts and society. Suitable for students and scholars of classical literature, reception studies, and gender studies.

List of contents

WHY ANTIGONE?; INTRODUCING ANTIGONE; KEY THEMES; 1. Sophocles' Antigone as a 'bad' woman; 2. The divine vs human laws controversy; 3. Gendered and anti-gendered Antigone; 4. The politics of lamentation; 5. Death and posthumanism in Sophocles' Antigone; 6. Antigone in Rome; ANTIGONE AFTERWARDS; A. IN CRITICAL THINKING; 7. De-politicizing Antigone: Hegel, Lacan, and beyond; 8. Re-politicizing Antigone; B. IN THE ARTS AND SOCIETY; 9. From the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century; 10. War: Antigones in WWII, Nazi Occupation, and Civil-War Greece; 11. Dispossession: Palestinian Antigone; 12. Equality: Antigones of many subjectivities in the 21st century.

About the author

Efimia D. Karakantza is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. Her recent focus is on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly Greek tragedy. Her latest book, Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus (HUP 2020) explores issues of identity and citizenship in the ancient polis. She is the co-editor of Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Ancient Greece, to be published by Brill (under contract).

Summary

This book explores Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present, examining key themes, modern analysis, and postmodern receptions of the heroine in the arts and society. Suitable for students and scholars of classical literature, reception studies, and gender studies.

Product details

• Authors: Efimia D. Karakantza, Efimia D. (University of Patras Karakantza, Karakantza Efimia D.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781138347823
• ISBN: 978-1-138-34782-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Philosophy, Theatre Studies, Classical texts, Ancient History, Gender studies, gender groups, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Ancient religions and Mythologies