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A selection of texts relevant to the contemporary discussion of Antigone...


Anouilh, Jean. 1951. Antigone: A Tragedy by Jean Anouilh. Trans. Lewis Galantière. London: Methuen.

Arkins, Brian. 2002. Women in Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy. In Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, ed. Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton, London: Methuen.

Augst, Therese Ahern. 2002. Difference becomes Antigone: Hölderlin and the Ethics of Translation. Seminar 38 (2).

Beistegui, Miguel de. 1998. Heidegger & the Political: Dystopias. London and New York: Routledge.

Boal, Augusto. 1998. Aristotle’s Coercive System of Tragedy. In Tragedy, ed. John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler. London and New York: Longman, pp. 123-140.

Brecht, Bertold. 1998. A Short Organum for the Theatre. In Tragedy, ed. John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler. London and New York: Longman, pp. 87-105.

Butler, Judith. 2000. Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life & Death. New York: Columbia University Press.

Derrida, Jacques. 1986. Glas. Tr. John P. Leavey, Jr. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.

Eagleton, Terry. 1990. Nationalism: Irony and commitment. In Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature, ed. Terry Eagleton, Frederic Jameson and Edward W. Said. Minneapolis Press: London.

Foley, Helen P. 2001. Female Acts in Tragedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Fugard, Athol. 2002. Antigone in Africa. In Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, ed. Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton, London: Methuen.

Fugard, Athol. 1974. Statements: Two Workshop Productions, Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island; and a new play, Statements after an arrest under the Immorality Act, devised by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona. London: Oxford University Press.

Heaney, Seamus. 2004. The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hegel, G.W.F. 1969. Hegel’s Science of Logic, ed. H. D. Lewis. Trans. A.V. Miller. Humanities Press International: Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey.

Hegel, G.W.F. 1974. Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. 3 vols. Trans. T. M. Knox. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Heidegger, Martin. 1996. Hölderlin’s Hymn ‘The Ister.’ Trans.William McNeill and Julia Davis. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press

Heidegger, Martin. 1975. An Introduction to Metaphysics. Trans. Ralph Mannheim. London: Yale University Press.

Heidegger, Martin. 1959. An Introduction to Metaphysics. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Irigaray, Luce. 1985. Speculum of the Other Woman. Trans. Gillian C. Gill. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Jacobs, Carol. 1996. Dusting Antigone. MLN. 111: 889-917.

Kofman, Sarah. 1978. L’espace de la cesure. Critique. 379. 1143-50.

Lacan, Jacques. 1992. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, Book VII. Trans. Dennis Porter. New York: Tavistock/Routledge.

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. 1989. The Caesura of the Speculative. Typography, Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics, ed. Christopher Fynsk. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Lloyd, David.1999. Ireland After History. Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays. Notre Dame, Indiana and University College Cork: University of Notre Dame Press in association with Field Day.

Loraux, Nicole. 1987. Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman. Trans. Anthony Forster. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Mader, Mary Beth. 2005. Antigone’s Line. Bulletin de la société Américaine de philosophie de langue Française, 14: 2.

Mannoni, Octave. 2003. I Know Well, but All the Same . . . . In Perversion and the Social Relation, ed. Molly Anne Rothenberg, Dennis A. Foster and Slavoj Žižek. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 68-92.

McDonald, Marianne. 2005. Antigone by Sophocles. London: Nick Hern Books.

McDonald, Marianne. 2002. The Irish and Greek Antigone. In Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, ed. Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton, London: Methuen.

McDonald, Marianne. 2000. Classics as Celtic Firebrand: Greek Tragedy, Irish Playwrights and Colonialism. In Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, ed. Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, pp. 16-26.

McDonald, Marianne, and J. Michael Walton. 2002. Introduction to Athol Fugard, Antigone in Africa. In Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, ed. Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton, London: Methuen.

Murray, Christopher. 1991. Three Irish Antigones. Perspectives of Irish Drama and Theatre, ed. Jacqueline Genet and Richard Allen Cave. Savage, Maryland: Barnes and Noble, pp. 115-129.

Paulin, Tom. 1985. The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone. London and Boston: Faber and Faber.

Paulin, Tom. 1984. Ireland and the English Crisis. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books.

Pomeroy, Sarah B. 1995. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, with a new preface by the author. New York: Schoken Books.

Roche, Anthony. 1988. Cultural Contexts and Literary Idioms in Contemporary Irish Literature, ed. Michael Kenneally. Studies in Contemporary Irish Literature 1; Irish Literary Studies 31. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, pp. 221-250.

Sjöholm, Cecilia. 2004. The Antigone Complex: Ethics and the Invention of Feminine Desire. Cultural Memory in the Present, Series ed. Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Sophocles. 1981. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. Tr. F. Strorr. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Vernant, Jean-Pierre and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. 1998. Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece. Trans. Janet Lloyd. New York: Zone Books.

Verter, Mitchell. "The Anarchism of the Other Person". Click here to read this article online.

Walton, J. Michael. 1987. Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of classical performance and modern production. New York: Greenwood Press.

Weir, Allison. 1996. Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity. Thinking Gender Series. New York: Routledge.

Wills, Clair. 1993. Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zeitlin, Froma I. 1996. Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Žižek, Slavoj. 2004. From Antigone to Joan of Arc. Helios. 31 (1 & 2): 51-62.




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