Free Download Alenka Zupančič, "Let Them Rot: Antigone's Parallax "
English | ISBN: 1531501044 | 2023 | 96 pages | EPUB | 471 KB
A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.
There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than Sophocles' Antigone. The general perspective from which the book is written could be summarized with this simple question: What is it about the figure of Antigone that keeps haunting us? Why do all these readings and rewritings keep emerging? To what kind of always contemporary contradiction does the need, the urge to reread and reimagine Antigone―in all kinds of contexts and languages―correspond?
As key anchor points of this general interrogation, three particular "obsessions" have driven the author's thinking and writing about
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