Hamish Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5660491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamish Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamish |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0863-9733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Hercules the grocer?”
The theme of resistance has been a popular topic in Asterix scholarship, whether this resistance is applied to the historical Gauls in their defiance of imperial Rome, to later nationalist or regionalist sentiments in France against invading forces, to any small groups of locals in opposition to foreign or global forces, to a cultural war between France/Europe and America, or to the dominant educational canon of Western history and literature. Wh…
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Hercules the grocer?”
The theme of resistance has been a popular topic in Asterix scholarship, whether this resistance is applied to the historical Gauls in their defiance of imperial Rome, to later nationalist or regionalist sentiments in France against invading forces, to any small groups of locals in opposition to foreign or global forces, to a cultural war between France/Europe and America, or to the dominant educational canon of Western history and literature. Wh…
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler
Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere. Through close readings of these tragedies, this book brings to light the tragic quality of Butler’s writing. It shows how Butler’s mode of read…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 work) · European Cultural and National Identity (1 work) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 work) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (1 work) · Greek tragedy (1 work)