Overview
Antigone has become a major figure in current cultural discourse thanks to the late twentieth-century interpretations by such controversial theorists as Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray, Zizek, and Judith Butler. This collection of articles by distinguished scholars from a variety of intellectual disciplines (including philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, theatre, and the classics) provides a postmodern perspective on the ethical and political issues raised by this ancient text and recent theatrical productions. The contributors provide an array of perspectives on a female figure who questions the role of the patriarchal state.
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Author: S. E. Wilmer (Head of the School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College Dublin) ,
Audrone Zukauskaite (Senior researcher at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute, Vilnius)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.818kg
ISBN: 9780199559213
ISBN 10: 019955921
Pages: 444
Publication Date: 26 August 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both scholars and theatre practitioners. Julia Listengarten, Theatre Journal a series of thought-provoking essays Eleftheria Ioannidou, Theatre Research International Interrogating Antigone has the immense merit of probing on a number of different levels the reasons why Antigone the character and Antigone the play continue to haunt us down the ages. T.N.F. Murtagh, New Theatre Quarterly offers a rich economy of semiotic exchanges in the multiple efforts of critics to produce new meanings through their alternative engagements with the classical text and its inexhaustible resources. Readers will find in the book a rich variety of Antigones with which to enter into some kind of meaningful exchange. Andres Fabian Henao Castro, The Classical Review
<br> The editors of Interrogating Antigone have assembled an extensive collection of thought-provoking, original essays to foster productive conversations across disciplines and encourage interpretive possibilities in representing, re-imagining, and re-visioning <br>Antigone in philosophy and literature, as well as in the visual and performing arts...the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary <br>discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both <br>scholars and theatre practitioners. --Theatre Journal<p><br> A series of thought-provoking essays which scrutinize Antigone as a paradigm of bodily exposure and exile, drawing on Agamben's and Arendt's concepts of bare and naked life. --Theatre Research international<p><br>
offers a rich economy of semiotic exchanges in the multiple efforts of critics to produce new meanings through their alternative engagements with the classical text and its inexhaustible resources. Readers will find in the book a rich variety of Antigones with which to enter into some kind of meaningful exchange. * Andres Fabian Henao Castro, The Classical Review * Interrogating Antigone has the immense merit of probing on a number of different levels the reasons why Antigone the character and Antigone the play continue to haunt us down the ages. * T.N.F. Murtagh, New Theatre Quarterly * a series of thought-provoking essays * Eleftheria Ioannidou, Theatre Research International * An important contribution to the fields of Classics, drama, and philosophy, this book is very well worth reading, demonstrating as it does the rich heritage and impact of the play in postmodern philosophy and thought. * Hermathena No 191 * the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both scholars and theatre practitioners. * Julia Listengarten, Theatre Journal * The book is comprehensive in its investigations and, as such, will inevitably appeal to scholars from many different disciplines and backgrounds. * Brenda Donohue, Trinity College Dublin, Modern Drama Reviews *
the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both scholars and theatre practitioners. Julia Listengarten, Theatre Journal An important contribution to the fields of Classics, drama, and philosophy, this book is very well worth reading, demonstrating as it does the rich heritage and impact of the play in postmodern philosophy and thought. Hermathena No 191 a series of thought-provoking essays Eleftheria Ioannidou, Theatre Research International Interrogating Antigone has the immense merit of probing on a number of different levels the reasons why Antigone the character and Antigone the play continue to haunt us down the ages. T.N.F. Murtagh, New Theatre Quarterly offers a rich economy of semiotic exchanges in the multiple efforts of critics to produce new meanings through their alternative engagements with the classical text and its inexhaustible resources. Readers will find in the book a rich variety of Antigones with which to enter into some kind of meaningful exchange. Andres Fabian Henao Castro, The Classical Review
the volume presents an excellent example of an interdisciplinary discourse that fuses theoretical and practical concerns, offering useful insights to both scholars and theatre practitioners. Julia Listengarten, Theatre Journal a series of thought-provoking essays Eleftheria Ioannidou, Theatre Research International
Author Information
S. E. Wilmer is Head of the School of Drama, Film, and Music, Trinity College, Dublin Audrone Zukauskaite is Senior researcher at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute, Vilnius
