After Oedipus

Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801496875
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Oedipus written by Julia Reinhard Lupton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses, the authors examine the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each of these discourses has developed in interpreting Shakespeare. Since Freud's writings on Oedipus and Hamlet, Shakespearean tragedy has been paradigmatic for psychoanalytic theory and criticism. In this ambitious and highly imaginative book, the authors trace the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses by examining the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each tradition has developed through its interpretation of Shakespeare.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015663855
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus The King written by Sophocles and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504062833
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus written by Sophocles and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greek tragedy about the exiled king’s final days—and the power struggle between his two sons. The second book in the trilogy that begins with Oedipus Rex and concludes with Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus is the story of an aged and blinded Oedipus anticipating his death as foretold by an earlier prophecy. Accompanied by his daughters, Antigone and Ismene, he takes up residence in the village of Colonus near Athens—where the locals fear his very presence will curse them. Nonetheless they allow him to stay, and Ismene informs him his sons are battling each other for the throne of Thebes. An oracle has pronounced that the location of their disgraced father’s final resting place will determine which of them is to prevail. Unfortunately, an old enemy has his own plans for the burial, in this heart-wrenching play about two generations plagued by misfortune from the world’s great ancient Greek tragedian.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486110303
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Favorite Greek Myths written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures, calamities, and conquests abound in stirring tales about Pandora's box, King Midas and his golden touch, the dreaded Cyclops, Narcissus and Echo, and many other familiar figures.

Author : Frederick Ahl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801473975
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Faces of Oedipus written by Frederick Ahl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary masterpiece. It is not, however, the only classical dramatization of Oedipus' quest to discover his identity. Between four and five hundred years after Sophocles' play was first performed, Seneca composed a fine, but neglected and often disparaged Latin tragedy on the same subject, which, in some ways, comes closer to our common understanding of the Oedipus myth. Now, modern readers can compare the two versions, in new translations by Frederick Ahl.Balancing poetry and clarity, yet staying scrupulously close to the original texts, Ahl's English versions are designed to be both read and performed, and are alert to the literary and historical complexities of each. In approaching Sophocles anew, Ahl is careful to preserve the richly allusive nature and rhetorical power of the Greek, including the intricate use of language that gives the original its brilliant force. For Ahl, Seneca's tragedy is vastly and intriguingly different from that of Sophocles, and a poetic masterpiece in its own right. Seneca takes us inside the mind of Oedipus in ways that Sophocles does not, making his inner conflicts a major part of the drama itself in his soliloquies and asides. Two Faces of Oedipus opens with a wide-ranging introduction that examines the conflicting traditions of Oedipus in Greek literature, the different theatrical worlds of Sophocles and Seneca, and how cultural and political differences between Athenian democracy and Roman imperial rule affect the nature and conditions under which the two tragedies were composed. This book brings two dramatic traditions into conversation while providing elegant, accurate, and exciting new versions of Sophocles' and Seneca's tragedies.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus, King of Thebes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1715 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691750
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.B. Yeats, the Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus written by William Butler Yeats and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1989 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Gus and his team at Ratcliffe Street Police Station are looking into the life histories of the dead men, George is getting impatient and decides to take matters into her own hands. Her methods are somewhat unorthodox and her discoveries bizarre, making it all the more difficult to piece together the elusive connection between the killer and his ever-increasing number of victims.

Author : Mark R. Anspach
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953780
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oedipus Casebook written by Mark R. Anspach and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Adrian Kelly
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472519728
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus written by Adrian Kelly and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force the old man back under Theban control. Oedipus' resistance shows a fierceness in no way dimmed by incapacity, but he also refuses to aid his repentant son, Polyneices, in his coming attack on Thebes, manifesting once more the passion and harshness which mark his character so thoroughly. His mysterious death at the end of the play, witnessed only by Theseus himself, seems the sole fitting end for such an exceptional and problematic figure, transforming Oedipus into one of the 'powerful dead' whose beneficence towards Athens heralds a positive future for the city. This useful companion provides background, context, a synopsis and detailed analysis of the play.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antigone written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: