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Alenka Zupančič Let Them Rot (Paperback) Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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- Book Title
- Let Them Rot : Antigone's Parallax
- Publication Name
- Let Them Rot
- Title
- Let Them Rot
- Subtitle
- Antigone’s Parallax
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1531501044
- EAN
- 9781531501044
- ISBN
- 9781531501044
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Psychology, Philosophy
- Topic
- Movements / Psychoanalysis, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory
- Release Date
- 17/01/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Series
- Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
- Type
- Schools of Thought
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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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' A ntigone . 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 Antigone . First is the issue of violence. The violence in Antigone is the opposite of "graphic" as we have come to know it in movies and in the media; rather, it is sharp and piercing, it goes straight to the bone. It is the violence of language, the violence of principles, the violence of desire, the violence of subjectivity. Then there is the issue of funerary rites and their role in appeasing the specific "undeadness" that seems to be the other side of human life, its irreducible undercurrent that death alone cannot end and put to rest. This issue prompted the author to look at the relationship between language, sexuality, death, and "second death." The third issue, which constitutes the focal point of the book, is Antigone's statement that if it were her children or husband lying unburied out there, she would let them rot and not take it upon herself to defy the decree of the state. The author asks, how does this exclusivist, singularizing claim (she would do it only for Polyneices), which she uses to describe the "unwritten law" she follows, tally with Antigone's universal appeal and compelling power? Attempting to answer this leads to the question of what this particular (Oedipal) family's misfortune, of which Antigone chooses to be the guardian, shares with the general condition of humanity. Which in turn forces us to confront the seemingly self-evident question: "What is incest?" Let Them Rot is Alenka Zupancic's absorbing and succinct guided tour of the philosophical and psychoanalytic issues arising from the Theban trilogy. Her original and surprising intervention into the broad and prominent field of study related to Sophocles' Antigone illuminates the classical text's ongoing relevance and invites a wide readership to become captivated by its themes.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
1531501044
ISBN-13
9781531501044
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22057262535
Product Key Features
Book Title
Let Them Rot : Antigone's Parallax
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Movements / Psychoanalysis, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Literary Criticism, Psychology, Philosophy
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pa4413.A7
Reviews
"Zupancic writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly senseless jokes into full-blown insights. Her ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory." ---Joan Copjec, Brown University, Zupancic writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly senseless jokes into full-blown insights. Her ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory. ---Joan Copjec, Brown University, "Zupancic writes with rare lucidity and patience for exposition, helped along by a talent for turning peculiar phrases or seemingly senseless jokes into full-blown insights. Her ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory." ---Joan Copjec, Brown University,
Table of Content
Preface vii Prologue 1 1. Violence, Terror, and Unwritten Laws 9 2. Death, Undeadness, and Funeral Rites 21 3. "I'd Let Them Rot" 50 Works Cited 83 Index 85
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
882.01
Series
Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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