Oedipus A Folklore Casebook
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Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1995-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 029914853X |
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Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes both note that “the Oedipus tale is not likely to ever fade from view in Western civilization, [as] the tale continues to pack a critical family drama into a timeless form.” Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles’ drama—the ancient Theban myth of the son who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother—Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook examines variations of the tale from Africa and South America to Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological, and structuralist perspectives, the nineteen essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale. In addition to the well-known interpretations of the Oedipus myth by Sigmund Freud and James Frazer, this casebook includes insightful selections by an international group of scholars. Essays on a Serbian Oedipus legend by Friedrich Krauss and on a Gypsy version by Mirella Karpati, for example, stress the psychological stages of atonement after the Oedipus figure learns the truth about his actions. Anthropologist Melford E. Spiro investigates the myth’s appearance in Burma and the significance of the mother’s identification with the dragon (the sphinx figure). Vladimir Propp’s essay, translated into English for the first time, and Lowell Edmunds’s theoretical review discuss the relation of the Oedipus story to the larger study of folklore. The result is a comprehensive and fascinating casebook for students of folklore, classical mythology, anthropology, and sociology.
Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824089535 |
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Author | : Sophocles |
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Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Mark R. Anspach |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2020-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1628953780 |
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Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play’s end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means “goat song.” Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him “the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize.” The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.
Author | : Jane Garry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351576151 |
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This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.
Author | : Allen W. Johnson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804725774 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421437198 |
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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. 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.
Author | : Alan Dundes |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : 9780299150730 |
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Author | : Daniel Merkur |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2005-07-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1135575274 |
Download Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.
Author | : Brian Murdoch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199596409 |
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The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond.This book traces the story from its English or French origins through its many variations from Iceland to Egypt and from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.