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.

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.