Format:
Online-Ressource (342 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107036970
Content:
A new interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone, exploring the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Interruption; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1 Tragedy, maternalism, ethics: toward an agonistic humanism; a new humanism?; four women and a funeral: the costs of classicization; Chapter 2 ""Antigone versus Oedipus,"" I: feminist theory and the turn to Antigone; antigone in argentina: elshtain and taylor; butler's antigonean turns; (i) Precarious Life; (ii) Antigone's Claim; Absorbing the lessons of Antigone: Edelman, latency, resignification; framed; crimp, a road not taken?; (i) Butler, Crimp, and the quilt
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(ii) The politics of beautiful deathfrom tragedy to melodrama: genres of generations; Chapter 3 ""Antigone versus Oedipus,"" II: the directors' agon in Germany in Autumn; nothing to do with sophocles? ""antigone fever"" in germany in autumn2; tragedy and melodrama - asymmetries of (de)classicization; re-emplotment or genre-switching and/as politics; the battle of the brothers; Part II Conspiracy; Introduction to Part II; Trauerspiel and/as tragedy; Conspiracy's genre? Antigone as Melodrama
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Chapter 4 Mourning, membership, and the politics of exception: plotting Creon's conspiracy with democracyregulating lament; antigone's laments: homeric mourning in democratic athens; antigone's undecidabilities in context; creon's grief; Chapter 5 From lamentation to logos: Antigone's conspiracy with language; antigone's dirge: prior receptions; antigone's dirge, reconsidered; (i) Parodying Pericles; (ii) Mimicking Creon; (iii) Citing Herodotus; the meaning of life and death; working the interval: the corporeal voice; the ""hamletization"" of antigone?
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IntroductionIntroduction to Part I; 1 Tragedy, maternalism, ethics: toward an agonistic humanism; 2 ""Antigone versus Oedipus,"" I: feminist theory and the turn to Antigone; 3 ""Antigone versus Oedipus,"" II: the directors' agon in Germany in Autumn; Introduction to Part II; 4 Mourning, membership, and the politics of exception: plotting Creon's conspiracy with democracy; 5 From lamentation to logos: Antigone's conspiracy with language; 6 Sacrifice, sorority, integrity: Antigone's conspiracy with Ismene; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Chapter 6 Sacrifice, sorority, integrity: Antigone's conspiracy with Ismene""we are not born to contend with men"" - ismene's reception history; ""i don't deny a thing"" - the problem of the two burials; ""keep it a secret"" - if ismene did it; ""i did it, yes"" - ismene speaks; ""words alone"" - the sisters' second fight; ""let her choose"" - lacans ethic's and/as forced choice; ""what do i care for life, cut off from you?"" - ismene's modernity; "ὦ κοινὸν αὐτάδελφον ἰσμήνης κάρα" - "ismene-head"; adianoeta and the ironies of reception; Conclusion; About the Cover Image; Notes; Preface
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107346024
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107036970
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Antigone, Interrupted
Language:
English
Keywords:
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