I finished all the keyword translations in the reply section of the post before this. It turned out to be really interesting. I was thinking of doing this as a class exercise, but it wound up taking too long and requiring too much translation experience. (I know almost zero Greek, but I've worked with dictionaries a lot.) For your amusement, this is the site I used... use the arrows to click forward in the text, and click "show" on the upper right-hand to see the English translation (it's not Fagles, but an older and much more literal one).
This is an Antigone-related news story from the New York Times. Since the first Gulf War in 1991, through both President Bushes and President Clinton, there has been a ban on news coverage about coffins of American war dead returning to the U.S. from overseas. Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates (W. Bush's 2nd D.S. - Rumsfeld's replacement) have apparently lifted the ban.
This is something Brecht had to say later about his objectives in rewriting/restaging Antigone. (It's section 2.)
This is Moeller's compilation of research tips and suggestions that he gave last quarter (login = moeller, password = moeller).
This (below) is a list of topics that students researched in one section of Core last year... the instructor sent this to our listserv, but pointed out that it's not the topic that matters so much as the researcher's ability to pose important questions about the topic and find useful sources to answer them. I believe the reason that they're mostly politically oriented is because the instructor chose that as a focus... my stance is that you can write about anything that pertains to thinking, making, or doing.
History and legacy of the Black Panther Party, Nationalism and the politics of hijab, Homelessness and charity in Los Angeles’ Skid Row, The historiography and cultural politics of the Nanking massacre, Cabaret culture in Weimar Germany, Child soldiers in Uganda/LRA, FISA and the legal battles over wiretapping, Corporatization and commodification of the “green” movement, Racism and the Turkish population in contemporary Germany, The art of Damien Hirst and animal rights advocacy, Feminism and transgressive performance art, Hip hop and debates about cultural authenticity, Ethiopian coffee growers and Starbucks, Moplah rebellion and Hindu/Muslim relations, The afterlife of the anti-Vietnam War movements, Globalization and the destruction of Swahili language, Contemporary punk’s debate with popular culture and the politics of traditional punk, Hurrican Katrina and debates about government accountability, 9/11 Ground Zero and the politics of memorialization, Military Commissions Act of 2006 and debates about habeus corpus
Finally, this is a good example of revision or translation of a classic text. Or maybe a bad example... but either way it's pretty funny.
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Elim, Mark, Roselaine, Stephanie
ReplyDelete-What are the key works you plan on using? And how do you plan on using them?
-What is each character trying to communicate? Are there any alternate interpretations to what they are trying to say?
-When you use your secondary source, are you agreeing with it, disagreeing or qualifying what it says?
-What is the tone of each character? What is the overall tone of the argument?
-How is the argument structured?
-Give a brief-ish analysis of the characters involved based on what you know of them prior to the argument
-Who won the chorus' approval? The audience's? Whose will was actually done in the end?
-How are literary devices used to strengthen the argument?
-Is the chorus' presence significant or not?