Oedipus : The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues /
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 So...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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| Edition: | Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition, 1996. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1985, and in 1996. Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421437200 |
| Access: | Open Access |