This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer.
While other works boldly claim to be progressively moving beyond the scope of Tragic themes of mortality, Antigone Unint.
We can simply listen to her whole story and learn from what she learns from her father, Oedipus.
This book argues that while current scholarship on Antigone tends to celebrate work that takes Antigone out of her classical roots and puts her into contemporary frameworks, we do not need to place her in a new context and setting to appreciate what her insights offer