Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Major/Program
English
First Advisor's Name
Nathaniel Cadle
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Heather Blatt
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Third Advisor's Name
Maneck Daruwala
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Keywords
Antigonick, Antigone, Anne Carson, Sophocles, Bianca Stone, Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Derrida, translation studies, performance, philoperformance, philo-performance, material culture, postmodernism, eros, irony, performativity
Date of Defense
3-29-2016
Abstract
The complicated issues surrounding translation studies have seen growing attention in recent years from scholars and academics that want to make it a discipline and not a minor branch of another field, such as linguistics or comparative literature. Writ large with Antigonick, Carson showcases the recent Western push towards translation studies in the American academy. By offering up a text that is chaotic in its presentation, she bypasses the rigid idea of univocality. By giving the text discordant images, she betrays the failed efficacy of sign and signification, and by choosing a text to be performed and mutually participated in, she exceeds ideas of the individual subject as the site of authorship. Ultimately, Carson enacts a theory of translation that critically deconstructs translation itself.
Identifier
FIDC000264
Recommended Citation
Alonso, Michelle, "We Are Standing in the Nick of Time: Translative Relevance in Anne Carson's "Antigonick"" (2016). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2509.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2509
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