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Author Sophocles.

Uniform Title Oedipus Rex. English
Title Oedipus tyrannus : a new translation, passages from ancient authors, religion and psychology, some studies, criticism / translated and edited by Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner.

Imprint New York : Norton, 1970.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  882.01 So66oDb 1970    ---  Available
Description viii, 261 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Series A Norton critical edition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-261).
Contents Text of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- Map -- Passages from Ancient Authors -- Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, lines: Thucydides' account of the plague -- Jocasta's opening speech in Euripides' Phoenissae -- Religion and psychology: some studies -- The Origin of the Oedipus Myth / Martin P. Nilsson -- Oedipus and Job / Meyer Fortes -- Oracles and dramaturgy / Gordon M. Kirkwood -- Taboo and neurotic guilt in the oedipus theme / Thalia Phillies Feldman -- The Oedipus Complex / Sigmund Freud -- Criticism -- Essays in criticism -- Selections from Aristotle's poetics -- Sophoclean Characters / C.M. Bowra -- The Characters of the Oedipus Tyrannus / R.C. Jebb -- Oedipus Tyrannus / S.M. Adams -- Drama of dramas: The Oedipus Tyrannus / A.J.A. Waldock -- Oedipus: An Analytic Tragedy / Albin Lesky -- Sophocles and the tragic character / Werner Jaeger -- The triple fate of Oedipus / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Tyrannus: action and actors / John Jones -- The drama of Oedipus / D.W. Lucas -- Oedipus and god / Bernard M.W. Knox -- Jocasta / Cedric H. Whitman -- The chorus in the Tyrannus / Richmond Lattimore -- Oedipus and the absurd life / Robert Cohen -- Oedipus Rex: The Tragic Rhythm of Action / Francis Fergusson -- Hamlet and the Oedipus / H.D.F. Kitto -- Problem of Guilt -- Innocence of Oedipus / J.T. Sheppard -- The Flaw of Oedipus / Laszlo Versenyi -- Guilt of Oedipus / P.H. Vellacott -- On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex / E.R. Dodds -- Chorus in Oedipus Tyrannus / P.H. Vellacott -- Innocence of Oedipus / Thomas Gould -- Guilt of Oedipus / Philip Wheelwright -- Bibliography.
Summary The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. Among the background materials are selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague, and Euripides' Phoenissae. The best of ancient and modern criticism is represented, permitting discussion from many points of view: psychological, religious, anthropological, dramatic, and literary.
Subject Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature.
Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama.
Tragedy.
Genre/Form Tragedies.
Added Author Berkowitz, Luci.
Brunner, Theodore F.
ISBN 0393098745 (pbk.)
9780393098747 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 334858
NZ1 3460276
AU@ 000000731392
AU@ 000023912640
AU@ 000027507193

 
    
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