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The Oedipus Casebook: Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781611863390 |
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Publisher: | Michigan State University Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/2020 |
Series: | Studies in Violence, Mimesis, & Culture Series |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 360 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface Mark R. Anspach vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated H. Lloyd-Jones N. G. Wilson Wm. Blake Tyrrell 1
Part 1 The Ritual Background
Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual Walter Burkert 129
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece Jan Bremmer 167
The Exposed Infant Marie Delcourt 191
Part 2 King and Victim
Imitating Oedipus Mark R. Anspach 219
Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim René Girard 245
Excerpt from Sweet Violence Terry Eagleton 269
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex Jean-Pierre Vernant 279
Oedipus as Pharmakos Helene Peet Foley 309
Part 3 Oedipus on Trial
Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling Michel Foucault 329
The Murderers of Laius William Chase Greene 363
The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106-7) Rick M. Newton 375
Who Killed Laius? Karl Harshbarger 381
Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius' Many Murderers Sandor Goodhart 393
An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian's Testimony Frederick Ahl 421
Index 453