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From:Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.)Very little of Sophocles' large output survives, and only his last two plays can be dated with certainty. We are not in a position to trace stylistic or ideological development in his work. Since the seven tragedies we...
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From: New Voices in Classical Reception Studies[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Lauriola provides the first detailed English analysis of an adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone (450-438 bce) by Italian writer Valeria Parrella, who uses the Sophoclean story...
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From: Electra USA: American Stagings of Sophocles’ Tragedy[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Choate examines the mythic elements and ancient stories from which Sophocles’s play Electra (circa 430-410 bce) was drawn and how they were changed by the playwright to serve...
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From: The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Campbell notes that Sophocles’s Antigone (450-438 bce) “is commonly thought” to present “an opposition between religion and the state.” However, one reading offered by Martin...
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From: Feminist Readings of Antigone[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Söderbäck focuses on the way sexual difference is treated in Sophocles’s Antigone (450-438 bce), offering “a reading that negates the dialectic most commonly ascribed to the...
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From:Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Vol. 80. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Ichneutae (play) c. 460 b.c.Aias [Ajax] (play) c. 450 b.c.Antigone (play) c. 442-41 b.c.Trachiniae (play) c. 440 b.c.Oedipus tyrannus [Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex] (play) c. 425? b.c.Electra...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJacques Lacan, in the The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, presents a reading of Sophocles's Antigone that establishes the character Antigone as an ethical heroine who prioritizes an individual sense of duty over the normative...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article "Echoes of Sophocles's Antigone in Auster's Invisible" Kathleen Waller discusses Paul Auster's Invisible, a novel that explores Deleuze's and Guattari's ontological idea of becoming in a virtual world...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHegel's treatment of Sophocles's Antigone exposes a tension in our own landscape between religious and civil autonomy. This tension reflects a deeper tension between unreflective, implicit norms and reflective, explicit...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDespite the many features that ground Antigone in the particular political ideology of fifth-century Athens, Sophocles' Antigone has "spoken more to the modern imagination than any other Greek tragedy except perhaps his...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe citizens of fifth century BCE Athens who wrote, produced, performed, watched, and judged Greek tragedy accepted certain anachronisms in the depiction of a mythological past that focused on the catastrophic lives of...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAfter two decades of neglect, Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh [Il Diavolo in corpo], is once again attracting the attention of the scholars of Italian cinema interested in gli anni di piombo. In part, this is due...
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From:Helios (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years on the U.S. stage, a variety of productions of Athenian drama have been emerging that syncretize the ancient form with distinctly U.S. identities. Will Power's (2006) The Seven, Allain Rochel's (2007)...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Mythe et Tragedie en Grece Ancienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet acknowledge the question of the law as "la matiere veritable de la tragedie" (15). The new idea of the law in an emerging democratic...
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From:Helios (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs Mark Griffith (1999, 51) has remarked, "Gender lies at the root of the problems of Antigone," but much of that attention to gender has focused on analyzing Antigone (e.g., Griffith 2001, Zizek 2004), or the...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedForever positioned between traditional beliefs that predict her rebellion and modern beliefs that might discover that rebellion's true meaning, Antigone persists in our cultural imagination under the sign of an...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAntigone Studies is a field with a distinguished history, and one that is flourishing again thanks to the emergence of a new community of voices. Interest in Antigone extends far beyond the discipline of classics,...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedfrom Juvenescence N OTHING IN THE UNIVERSE--BE IT THE NEWBORN INFANT OR THE universe itself--is without age. If a phenomenon does not age it is not of this world; and if it is not of this world, it is not a...
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From: Tragedy, Myth, and Mystery[(essay date 1962) In the following excerpt, Hathorn discusses Antigone not as a drama of character, but as a mythic work concerned with the interplay between the ideal and practical, and between love and politics.]...
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From: The North American Review[In the following excerpt, the reviewer explores Sophocles' handling of the interplay between free will and destiny in the Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, concluding that Oedipus “is the most thorough display of the power...