Oedipus The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues / Lowell Edmunds.
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TextEdition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks edition, 1996Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource xxii, 242 pages)ISBN: 9781421437200Subject(s): Oedipus (Tale) | Oedipus (Tale)Genre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oedipus.DDC classification: 398.352 LOC classification: GR75.O3 | E36 1996Online resources: Full text available: 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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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.
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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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