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Antigones

How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought

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  • 316 páginas
  • 12 horas de lectura

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According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon—between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old—has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching legacy of this great classical myth. He considers its treatment in Western art, literature, and thought—in drama, poetry, prose, philosophic discourse, political tracts, opera, ballet, film, and even the plastic arts. A study in poetics and in the philosophy of reading, <i>Antigones</i> leads us to look again at the influence the Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture.

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Antigones, George Steiner

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1984
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Título
Antigones
Subtítulo
How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought
Idioma
Inglés
Publicado en
1984
Formato
Tapa dura
Páginas
316
ISBN10
0198126654
ISBN13
9780198126652
Serie
Descripción
According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon—between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old—has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching legacy of this great classical myth. He considers its treatment in Western art, literature, and thought—in drama, poetry, prose, philosophic discourse, political tracts, opera, ballet, film, and even the plastic arts. A study in poetics and in the philosophy of reading, <i>Antigones</i> leads us to look again at the influence the Greek myths exercise on twentieth-century culture.