The Oedipus casebook: reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Intro -- Contents -- Preface, by Mark R. Anspach -- Acknowledgments -- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson, translated into English by Wm. Blake Tyrrell -- Part One. The Ritual Background -- Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual, by Walter B...
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| Language: | English |
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
2020.
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: The Oedipus casebook : reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King] (2020) (Cain, William E., 1952 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Ser.
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Sophocles, Oedipus tyrannus
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface, by Mark R. Anspach -- Acknowledgments -- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson, translated into English by Wm. Blake Tyrrell -- Part One. The Ritual Background -- Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual, by Walter Burkert -- Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, by Jan Bremmer -- The Exposed Infant, by Marie Delcourt -- Part Two. King and Victim -- Imitating Oedipus, by Mark R. Anspach -- Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, by René Girard -- Excerpt from Sweet Violence, by Terry Eagleton -- Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex, by Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Oedipus as Pharmakos, by Helene Peet Foley -- Part Three. Oedipus on Trial -- Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, by Michel Foucault -- The Murderers of Laius, by William Chase Greene -- The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106-7), by Rick M. Newton -- Who Killed Laius? by Karl Harshbarger -- Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius' Many Murderers, by Sandor Goodhart -- An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian's Testimony, by Frederick Ahl -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1609176154 |