| Course Title: The Lives and Afterlives of Antigone |
| Start Date: 09/06/2023 End Date: 12/19/2023 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2023 |
| Description: Antigone's confrontation with the power of the state and her political dissent have made her one of the central global literary figures for political struggle. Reading plays, novels, and poems from Ancient Greece to 20th century Germany, Ireland, and South Africa and 21st Century Britain, Pakistan, and the United States, we will explore the question of a person's conflicted relationship with the demands of state law, family bonds, individual conscience, and collective justice and think about the role of literary representation as a form of historical witness. Writers include Sophocles, Bertolt Brecht, Kamila Shamsie, and Judith Butler. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Nigel Alderman | 413-538-3224 | nalderma@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/06/2023 - 12/19/2023 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 107 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 14 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles Vol. 1 Author: Sophocles, Copyright: 1991 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780226307923 Publisher: U of Chicago Press |
Required | 12.00 |
| Title: Home Fire Author: Shamsie, Kamila Copyright: 2018 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780735217690 Publisher: Riverhead Books |
Required | 13.00 |
| Title: Antigone (trans. Barbara Bray) Author: Anouilh, Jean Copyright: 2000 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0413695409 Publisher: Methuen Drama/A & C Black |
Required | 10.76 |
| Title: Antigone Author: Brecht, Bertolt Copyright: 2000 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0936839252 Publisher: Applause Theatre Books |
Required | 9.95 |
| Title: Antigone Author: Zizek, Slavoj Copyright: 2016 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781474269377 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic |
Required | 18.00 |
| Title: The Burial at Thebes Author: Heaney, Seamus Copyright: 2005 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780374530075 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Required | 12.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: It is a requirement of the course that students have these particular copies, whether print or digital. Use the ISBN number to ensure you have the correct edition. |