Antigone
Author:   Efimia D. Karakantza (University of Patras, Greece.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138347823


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Efimia D. Karakantza (University of Patras, Greece.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138347823


ISBN 10:   1138347825
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table 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.

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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).

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