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 Sophocl...

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Autor principal: Edmunds, Lowell
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
Edició:Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition, 1996.
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Sumari: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
Descripció de l’ítem: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.
Descripció física:1 online resource (268 pages).
ISBN:9781421437200
Accés:Open Access