Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Portugal, Jose Alberto
Area of Concentration
Spanish Language and Literature and German Language and Literature
Abstract
This thesis aims to look at two 20th century retellings of Antigone by Sophokles, and how they use the framework of this ancient text as a means through which to discuss modern authoritarianism in the post-war era. This analysis includes an examination of Bertolt Brecht’s Die Antigone des Sophokles and José Bergamín’s La sangre de Antígona in relationship to their intertextual relationships (with Sophokles and other source texts) and the cultural-historical moment out of which each work was created. This thesis also includes a translation of the two prologues of Die Antigone des Sophokles that Brecht wrote, and a full annotated translation of La sangre de Antígona.
Recommended Citation
Plymale, Ari A., "“¿ERES TÚ, ANTÍGONA?”: INTERTEXTUALITY AND REPRESENTATIONS OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN TWO 20TH CENTURY RETELLINGS OF ANTIGONE" (2019). Theses & ETDs. 5777.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5777