Oedipus The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues / Lowell Edmunds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edmunds, Lowell.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oedipus (Tale).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages))

Edition:

Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition, 1996

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Sigla

List of Analogues

Abbreviations

Introduction

Ancient Sources for the Oedipus Legend

Texts of the Analogues

Medieval Europe and the Near East

Modern Europe (Except Slavic)

Slavic

Near East, Asia, Africa, Western Hemisphere

Bibliographies

1: The Ancient Oedipus Legend

2: Medieval Analogues to the Oedipus Legend

3: Modern Analogues to the Oedipus Legend

4: Published Sources of the Analogues in the Collection

Index of Sources

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1985, and in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-2490-7

1-4214-3718-X

OCLC:

1131887024