Antigone’s Daughters

Gender, Family, and Expression in the Modern Novel

Marta L. Wilkinson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2008 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-0282-0 (ISBN)

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Antigone’s Daughters presents various readings of the classical myth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist and psychoanalytic literary theories. Topics such as femininity, education, and establishing selfhood amidst the restrictions of the patriarchal society presented by Sophocles provide the foundation for the modern novel. This study serves as a model for the comparative interpretation of literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including the writings of George Sand (Indiana), Karolina Pavlova (A Double Life), Nikolai Chernyshevsky (What Is to Be Done?), Emile Zola (L’Assommoir and Nana), María Luisa Bombal (La amortajada) and Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits). Each chapter isolates an aspect of Antigone’s struggle within both the public and domestic spheres as she negotiates her independence and asserts her voice.
A valuable tool for the study of modern literature, the universality of Antigone presented in this study prompts the investigation of many classical motifs while providing a thorough study of various national literatures within their own contemporary contexts.

The Author: Marta L. Wilkinson is Assistant Professor of English at Wilmington College. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her works focus on modern French, Russian, and Latin American literatures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2008
Reihe/Serie	Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 97
Reihe/Serie	Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature ; 97
Mitarbeit	Herausgeber (Serie): Horst Daemmrich
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4331-0282-X / 143310282X
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-0282-0 / 9781433102820
Zustand	Neuware