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Paperback The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King Book
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ISBN: 1611863392

ISBN13: 9781611863390

The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King

(Part of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture (SVMC) Series)

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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, Ren 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...

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