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Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
by Helen MoralesA witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world.But in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told -- and read -- in different ways. Through these stories, whether it's Antigone's courageous stand against tyranny or the indestructible Caeneus, who inspires trans and gender queer people today, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity, empowerment, and catharsis.Antigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo, spark resistance, and rail against unjust regimes.(P) 2020 Hachette Audio
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (The Wellek Library Lectures)
by Judith ButlerThe celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship—and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. <P><P>Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes. Antigone proves to be a more ambivalent figure for feminism than has been acknowledged, since the form of defiance she exemplifies also leads to her death. Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk. Moreover, Antigone shows how the constraints of normative kinship unfairly decide what will and will not be a livable life.Butler explores the meaning of Antigone, wondering what forms of kinship might have allowed her to live. Along the way, she considers the works of such philosophers as Hegel, Lacan, and Irigaray. How, she asks, would psychoanalysis have been different if it had taken Antigone—the "postoedipal" subject—rather than Oedipus as its point of departure? If the incest taboo is reconceived so that it does not mandate heterosexuality as its solution, what forms of sexual alliance and new kinship might be acknowledged as a result? The book relates the courageous deeds of Antigone to the claims made by those whose relations are still not honored as those of proper kinship, showing how a culture of normative heterosexuality obstructs our capacity to see what sexual freedom and political agency could be.
Antigone's Example: Early Modern Women's Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams
by Mihoko SuzukiThis book investigates early modern women’s interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. Taking this transcultural and comparative perspective, and the period designation “early modern” expansively, Antigone’s Example identifies a canon of women’s civil-war writings; it elucidates their historical specificity as well as the transhistorical context of civil war, a context which, it argues, enabled women’s participation in political thought.
Antigone's Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries
by Mark A. WolfgramSophocles' play Antigone is a starting point for understanding the perpetual problems of human societies, families, and individuals, who are caught up in the terrible aftermath of mass violence. What is one to do after the killing has stopped? What can be done to prevent a round of new violence? The tragic and dramatic tension in the play is put in motion by setting an unyielding Antigone against King Creon. As we see through the investigation of how Germany, Japan, Spain, Yugoslavia and Turkey have dealt with their histories of mass violence and genocide in the 20th century, the forces represented by Antigone and Creon remain very much part of our world today. Through a comparison of the five countries, their political institutions, and cultural traditions, we begin to appreciate the different pathways that societies have taken when confronting their violent histories. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Antigonick
by Anne CarsonAn illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho, Simonides, Aiskhylos, Sophokles and Euripides. Antigonick is her seminal work. Sophokles' luminous and disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language and presentation. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the author, "Dear Antigone."
Antigua and My Life Before: A Novel
by Marcella Serrano Margaret Sayers PedenJosefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt for not having foreseen the tragedy, Josefa feels compelled to tell Violeta's life story--one marked by lost ideals, disillusionment, and grief--which is ultimately Josefa's story, too. Through the interwoven lives of these two women, Marcela Serrano explores how the demands of a woman's role as mother, wife, lover, and friend are frequently at odds with her own dreams and aspirations, and how easily the fragile bonds of friendship and family can be strained to the breaking point. For Josefa and Violeta, it is only in Antigua, under the watchful eyes of "the others"--a chorus of female ancestral spirits who testify to the women's defining moments of strength and courage--that Josefa and Violeta will discover that even in the aftermath of violence and betrayal they have control over their destinies and their redemption. Exquisitely crafted and written in beautiful, lyrical prose, Marcela Serrano's unforgettable novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances speaks to every woman who has experienced the wrenching divide between professional ambition and family responsibility, who has been torn between the excitement of illicit passion and the security of marriage, who has craved the thrill of success while yearning for solitude in an often chaotic, invasive world.
La Antigua Profecía Cósmica y Los Dragones de Arionel: CUENTOS DEL DOMINIO DE LOS DRAGONES Y MÁS ALLÁ. SERIE 1 (Tales from Dragondom & Beyond Series #1 #1)
by Lesley LawsEn la línea de la Nueva Conciencia Superior que está afectando a la humanidad y a la Tierra, lo que antes se clasificaba como mito metafísico y ciencia ficción se está convirtiendo rápidamente en realidad cuántica. Esta es la historia de una persona, Aisha Hughes. Siempre ha sido clasificada como "rara", una extraña y una don nadie. Acosada, condenada al ostracismo y muchas veces objeto de las bromas cínicas de otros. Sin embargo, en su aislamiento, sus talentos y sus dones psíquicos le han permitido ver e interactuar más rápido que la mayoría con este nuevo fenómeno. Esta es su historia. A medida que los velos entre las realidades se diluyen y la humanidad, en general, empieza a despertar, ella descubre de repente que ya no está sola. Sus dones la impulsan primero a aumentar la fuerza de sus poderes latentes y luego su capacidad de autoescritura abre comunicaciones que de repente tienen sentido y la guían hacia adelante. A medida que empieza a creer en sí misma, va asumiendo sus superpoderes. Los mundos cuántico y galáctico se convierten en sus lugares habituales, y entonces encuentra o es encontrada por "su dragón". Ese día su mundo cambia para siempre. Experimenta los mundos de la Realidad Cuántica... los dragones, los elementales, los magos y la Federación Galáctica, donde se puede acceder a las líneas temporales del pasado, del presente y del posible futuro y a los mundos paralelos. Únete a las aventuras, a la carrera por crear Nuevas Líneas de Tiempo para la Tierra y a la carrera de ella y su dragón con nuevos amigos, para corregir pequeñas cosas del pasado que pueden salvar un planeta moribundo. Aisha y su amigo el dragón púrpura cruzan las fronteras, formando parte de un grupo cósmico de Guerreros de la Luz, seres celestiales, magos y especialistas de todas las especies de la Galaxia. ¿Se despertará un día con todos sus nuevos poderes en la Tierra? ¿Estará la Humanidad preparada cuando Aisha y la primera
La Antigua Roma (La loca historia de la humanidad #Volumen 2)
by Josep Busquet Àlex López¿Sabías que...En el Circo Máximo cabían más espectadores que en un estadio de fútbol?La mascota favorita de Julio César era una jirafa?En la Antigua Roma llegó a estar prohibido llevar pantalones?¡Descubre el mundo antiguo con LOS TEMPO, la familia más alocada y aventurera de todos los tiempos!INCLUYE:PasatiemposCómicsBastantes romanosAlgunos leonesMucho, mucho humor
Los Antiguos
by P. J. DanielsMeses después de frustrar un complot para arrebatar el trono, Víctor es llamado ante el Rey para una importante misión. Con Lady Anna Klausen a su lado, se dirige a una ciudad vecina para descubrir el misterio de un intento de asesinato real. Pero lo que encuentran allí, oculto a plena vista, podría destrozar todo el reino. (Advertencia: Este libro está destinado a un público adulto y contiene escenas de violencia gráfica y actividad sexual)
Antiguos secretos
by Katherine Garbera Luis Pugni¿Sería acertado mezclar los negocios con el placer? Henry Devonshire era el hijo ilegítimo de Malcolm Devonshire, dueóo de Everest Records. Henry era un hombre irresistible, cuyo objetivo consistía en convertirse en el heredero del imperio de su padre moribundo. La única persona que podía ayudarle a conseguirlo era Astrid Taylor, su encantadora asistente personal; sin embargo, no contaba con la atracción que experimentaría hacia ella y que podía costarle a Henry, literalmente, una fortuna.
Los antiguos venenos (Muerte en San Jerónimo #Volumen 3)
by Oscar de MurielHay tantísimas piezas, todas desencajadas más andan entre sombras, bien amortajadas, sus rastros perfumados, sus huellas pisoteadas, y voces que susurran verdades ultrajadas. DON ANTONIO DE HORCASITAS, NOBLE ESPAÑOL DE MORAL DUDOSA, MUERE ENVENENADO en el palacio de los virreyes, tras comprar medicinas preparadas en el CONVENTO DE SAN JERÓNIMO. Alina, joven protegida de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y ávida científica, fue quien destiló esos remedios, y de inmediato recaen sobre ella las SOSPECHAS DE ASESINAT y BRUJERÍA. Su fiel doncella Matea, así como sor Juana y don Carlos Sigüenza y Góngora, deberán unir fuerzas para ayudarla a probar su inocencia, antes de que el caso llegue a oídos del tan temido arzobispo Aguiar.
Antiheroes: Heroes, Villains, and the Fine Line Between
by Jennifer Crusie Adam-Troy Castro Mary BorsellinoThe most interesting characters are almost never the good guys. Doing the right thing is great and all, but a little bit of darkness—or a lot of it—often makes for a more engaging story. Antiheroes: Heroes, Villains, and the Fine Line Between is dedicated to the dark heroes and sympathetic villains we love. Find out why William McKinley High's agonist Sue Sylvester is essential to Glee. Discover where your favorite comic book character falls on the continuum of good and evil. Weigh in on Twilight's very dangerous boy Edward Cullen: romantic, sparkly hero, or sociopath suffering from Antisocial Personality Disorder? Plus other essays on: The Vampire Diaries' most antiheroic antihero, Damon Salvatore America's favorite serial killer, Dexter Morgan, and the nature (and nurture) of evil The curious appeal of Alias' Arvin Sloane Supernatural's vampire hunter-cum-vampire Gordon Walker The shared monstrosity of Spider-Man, Doc Ock, and the Green Goblin Gun-slinging necromancer Anita Blake, and the benefits (and pitfalls) of embracing the monster within This brand new, e-book only collection of essays—"remixed" from previous Smart Pop series titles—gives a funny and thought-provoking in-depth look at the antihero, from the villains just a little too good to be unequivocal bad guys, and the heroes just a bit too bad to be truly good.
Antilia: Sword and Song
by Kate Story“An utterly contemporary, exquisitely imagined parallel-world fantasy with a deeply satisfying plot and unforgettable characters” (Holly Bennett, author of Redwing). It’s the near future, and the world is on the brink of war. The paths of two lonely teens converge, caught in an uncontrollable current crashing through time and space. Rowan and Ophelia discover they share a place that’s the stuff of childhood dreams. In Antilia there is magic, and humans walk alongside minor gods and mythological beings. But all is not what it seems, and the two are pulled inexorably into a divided realm. Separated and unable to get home, they find Antilia and Earth’s fate are forged together. Can Ophelia and Rowan repair the damage, fulfill their destinies, and save both worlds from annihilation? Antilia: Sword and Song is an epic story of survival and self-discovery. “You know a good book as soon as you start it. It sings to you and makes an immediate connection. That’s what happened to me with Kate Story’s Antilia. I loved everything about the book.” —Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award–winning author
Antillia (The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention)
by Henrietta GoodmanWinner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to exist. The ghosts that haunt this collection are phantom islands, moon lakes, lasers used to clean the caryatids at the Acropolis, earlier versions of the self, suicides, a madam from the Old West, petroleum, snapdragons, pets, ice apples, Casper, and a &“resident ghost&” who makes the domestic realm of &“the cradle and the bed&” uninhabitable. The ghosts are sons, fathers &“asleep in front of the TV,&” and a variety of exes—&“lost boys&” with names like The Texan and Mr. No More Cowboy Hat whom Henrietta Goodman treats with snarky wit but also with grief, guilt, and love. Although memories pervade this collection, these poems also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis.
Antim Aranya: अन्तिम अरण्य
by Nirmal Vermaअन्तिम अरण्य यह जानने के लिए भी पढ़ा जा सकता है कि बाहर से एक कालक्रम में बँधा होने पर भी उपन्यास की अन्दरूनी संरचना उस कालक्रम से निरूपित नहीं है। अन्तिम अरण्य का उपन्यास-रूप न केवल काल से निरूपित है, बल्कि वह स्वयं काल को दिक् में स्पेस में रूपान्तरित करता है। उनका फॉर्म स्मृति में से अपना आकार ग्रहण करता है– उस स्मृति से जो किसी कालक्रम से बँधी नहीं है, जिसमें सभी कुछ एक साथ है– अज्ञेय से शब्द उधार लेकर कहें तो जिसमें सभी चीज़ो का ‘क्रमहीन सहवर्तित्व’ है। यह ‘क्रमहीन सहवर्तित्व’ क्या काल को दिक् में बदल देना नहीं है?… यह प्राचीन भारतीय कथाशैली का एक नया रूपान्तर है। लगभग हर अध्याय अपने में एक स्वतन्त्र कहानी पढ़ने का अनुभव देता है और साथ ही उपन्यास की अन्दरूनी संरचना में वह अपने से पूर्व के अध्याय से निकलता और आगामी अध्याय को अपने में से निकालता दिखाई देता है। एक ऐसी संरचना जहाँ प्रत्येक स्मृति अपने में स्वायत्त भी है और एक स्मृतिलोक का हिस्सा भी। यह रूपान्तर औपचारिक नहीं है और सीधे पहचान में नहीं आता क्योंकि यहाँ किसी प्राचीन युक्ति का दोहराव नहीं है। भारतीय कालबोध-सभी कालों और भुवनों की समवर्तिता के बोध-के पीछे की भावदृष्टि यहाँ सक्रिय है।
Antima: अंतिमा
by Manav Kaulकभी लगता था कि लंबी यात्राओं के लिए मेरे पैरों को अभी कई और साल का संयम चाहिए। वह एक उम्र होगी जिसमें किसी लंबी यात्रा पर निकला जाएगा। इसलिए अब तक मैं छोटी यात्राओँ ही करता रहा था। यूँ किन्हीं छोटी यात्राओं के बीच मैं भटक गया था और मुझे लगने लगा था कि यह छोटी यात्रा मेरे भटकने की वजह से एक लंबी यात्रा में तब्दील हो सकती है। पर इस उत्सुकता के आते ही अगले मोड़ पर ही मुझे उस यात्रा के अंत का रास्ता मिल जाता और मैं फिर उपन्यास के बजाय एक कहानी लेकर घर आ जाता। हर कहानी, उपन्यास हो जाने का सपना अपने भीतर पाले रहती है। तभी इस महामारी ने सारे बाहर को रोक दिया और सारा भीतर बिखरने लगा। हम तैयार नहीं थे और किसी भी तरह की तैयारी काम नहीं आ रही थी। जब हमारे, एक तरीक़े के इंतज़ार ने दम तोड़ दिया और इस महामारी को हमने जीने का हिस्सा मान लिया तब मैंने ख़ुद को संयम के दरवाज़े के सामने खड़ा पाया। इस बार भटकने के सारे रास्ते बंद थे। इस बार छोटी यात्रा में लंबी यात्रा का छलावा भी नहीं था। इस बार भीतर घने जंगल का विस्तार था और उस जंगल में हिरन के दिखते रहने का सुख था। मैंने बिना झिझके संयम का दरवाज़ा खटखटाया और ‘अंतिमा’ ने अपने खंडहर का दरवाज़ा मेरे लिए खोल दिया।
Antimatter (Deep Space Nine #8)
by John VornholtThe Bajoran shipyard is assigned to build an engine for a new starship, a project which could be instrumental in revitalizing the planet's war-ravished economy. As Commander Sisko awaits the arrival of a tanker containing the antimatter that will power the starship, a band of hijackers captures the extremely valuable cargo and escapes through the wormhole. When the hijacking spurs a political debate, Major Kira struggles to mediate the dispute between the opposing factions. Meanwhile, Sisko makes a desperate move to retrieve the antimatter. With the stability of the Bajoran economy at stake, Sisko, Dax, and Odo infiltrate the hijackers, a move that could have deadly consequences for them and the planet Bajor.
Antimatter Blues: A Mickey7 Novel (Mickey7 #2)
by Edward AshtonEdward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive—that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life.It’s not going to last.It may be sunny now, but winter is coming. The antimatter that fuels the colony is running low, and Marshall wants his bomb back. If Mickey agrees to retrieve it, he’ll be giving up the only thing that’s kept his head off of the chopping block. If he refuses, he might doom the entire colony. Meanwhile, the creepers have their own worries, and they’re not going to surrender the bomb without getting something in return. Once again, Mickey finds the fate of two species resting in his hands. If something goes wrong this time, though, he won’t be coming back.
Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature
by Roger A. LaddThis study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
The Antinomies Of Realism
by Fredric JamesonThe Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since struggle to reconcile the social conditions of their own creation with the history of this mode of writing: the so-called modernist novel is one attempted solution to this conflict, as is the ever-more impoverished variety of commercial narratives - what today's book reviewers dub "serious novels," which are an attempt at the impossible endeavor to roll back the past. Fredric Jameson examines the most influential theories of artistic and literary realism, approaching the subject himself in terms of the social and historical preconditions for realism's emergence. The realist novel combined an attention to the body and its states of feeling with a focus on the quest for individual realization within the confines of history. In contemporary writing, other forms of representation - for which the term "postmodern" is too glib - have become visible: for example, in the historical fiction of Hilary Mantel or the stylistic plurality of David Mitchell's novels. Contemporary fiction is shown to be conducting startling experiments in the representation of new realities of a global social totality, modern technological warfare, and historical developments that, although they saturate every corner of our lives, only become apparent on rare occasions and by way of the strangest formal and artistic devices.In a coda, Jameson explains how "realistic" narratives survived the end of classical realism. In effect, he provides an argument for the serious study of popular fiction and mass culture that transcends lazy journalism and the easy platitudes of recent cultural studies.From the Hardcover edition.
Antiochus: A Novel
by Walter Price John GilliesHe was one of the most notorious persecutors of the Jews who ever lived. He defiled the Temple of God, killed religious zealots, and became the archetype of the Antichrist.The Greek monarch, King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, ruled the ancient Seleucid Empire 2200 years ago. The authors have written the story of his reign and find an extremely revealing relationship between this mysterious personality and certain events that the Bible indicates are yet to come to pass.An important evil figure in Bible prophecy comes to life in Antiochus.
Antiochus: A Novel
by Walter Price John GilliesHe was one of the most notorious persecutors of the Jews who ever lived. He defiled the Temple of God, killed religious zealots, and became the archetype of the Antichrist.The Greek monarch, King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, ruled the ancient Seleucid Empire 2200 years ago. The authors have written the story of his reign and find an extremely revealing relationship between this mysterious personality and certain events that the Bible indicates are yet to come to pass.An important evil figure in Bible prophecy comes to life in Antiochus.
Antiphon and Andocides
by Gagarin Michael Macdowell Douglas M.In its primary aim of making Antiphon and Andocides accessible to a broader audience, the volume is eminently successful. Both translators show steady hands, accurately conveying the substance (and nuances) of the speeches in a clear, modern idiom...The book also succeeds in its aim of making the orators intelligible to novices; the introductions and notes provide a brief survey of some of the historical and legal complexities of Attic oratory
Antipodean George Eliot (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Margaret Harris Matthew SussmanIn Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career—from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such—Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.
Antipodes
by Michele BaconWhen Erin Cerise steps off her plane in Christchurch, New Zealand, she’s determined to overcome her losses of swim team captainship, her boyfriend Ben, and her reputation. Her mother is certain studying abroad will regain Erin’s chances of a good future. Once Erin meets her uninspiring host family and city, though, she’s not so sure.Before Christchurch, Erin wasn’t always intense and focused. When had her priorities gone upside down?Now, Erin balks at NZ’s itchy school uniforms, its cold houses, and her hosts’ utter inability to pronounce her name correctly. Christchurch does boast amazing rock climbing, gorgeous scenery, and at least one guy who could make her journey worthwhile—if she lets him.With months ahead of her, Erin slowly begins to draw on the years behind her, one step back into her memories at a time. As she rebuilds herself from the other side of the world, she finds that although her life has been turned upside down and she’s far from home, every way she moves takes her closer to where she came from.