Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. Fine. Item #006472
Soft cover. xxii, 242 pp. Light bumps to corners, else fine. 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 material...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 discussing 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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