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Antigone / Slavoj Žižek.
- Title
- Antigone / Slavoj Žižek.
- Author
- Žižek, Slavoj
- Publication
- London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR9170.S573 Z59 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 31 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- "While it is common practice in contemporary theatre to re-contextualize a piece of work, the riskier--and Slavoj Zizek would argue more faithful--approach might be to change the actual story itself. Zizek's Antigone not only re-positions Antigone as a revolutionary political figure, it alters the narrative of the play itself. As Zizek puts it himself in the introduction to the play, 'Only one thing is sure: sticking to the traditional letter is the safest way to betray the spirit of the classic'. Philosophers have long been preoccupied with Antigone--Kierkegaard, Hegel, Plato and Judith Butler to name but a few--but never before has a philosopher had the audacity to throw fidelity to the wind and re-write one of the most classic plays in the history of theatre. This lack of fidelity is, of course, precisely the point: not only is this a fascinating new play in its own right, it is a political work calling into question our ideas of reverence to the canon, fidelity to the text and the notion of what 'faithfulness' might really mean. A brilliantly funny, moving and political play for those who are interested in reading and watching Antigone in a new way. "--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Drama.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Play -- Postscript -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781474269377
- 1474269370
- 9781474269384 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781474269391 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016027326
- OCLC
- 930255804
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library