Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression.The power of the Oedipus legend is apparent not only in its interpretations but even more so in its variations. As Edmunds writes, "Translations, adaptations, and performances still come forth in a never-ending stream. Again and again, playwrights have tried their hand at new shapings of the Sophoclean Oedipuses and often a country's Oedipus forms a whole chapter in the history of its literature." Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression.
- 2020
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ISBN9781421437200Related ISBN(s)9780801824906, 9780801854903, 9781421437187, 9781421437194MARC RecordOCLC1131887024Pages268Launched on MUSE2019-12-20LanguageEnglishOpen AccessYesCreative CommonsCC-BY-NC-ND
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- Half Title
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- List of Analogues
- pp. xv-xvi
- Abbreviations
- pp. xvii-xxii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-46
- Part 1. Texts of The Analogues
- pp. 61-62
- Modern Europe (Except Slavic)
- pp. 89-169
- Bibliography
- pp. 225-234
- Index of Sources
- pp. 235-237
- Index of Names and Subjects
- pp. 239-242
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