The Oedipus Casebook
Editat de Mark R Anspachen Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2020
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611863390
ISBN-10: 1611863392
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 60
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10: 1611863392
Pagini: 360
Ilustrații: 60
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Notă biografică
Mark R. Anspach is the author of Vengeance in Reverse: The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness and the editor of Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire, by René Girard.
Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.
Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. He is the author of works including The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard and coauthor of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action.
Cuprins
Contents
Preface, by Mark R. Anspach
Acknowledgments
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, Greek text edited and annotated by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson, translated into English by Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Part One. The Ritual Background
Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual, by Walter Burkert
Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, by Jan Bremmer
The Exposed Infant, by Marie Delcourt
Part Two. King and Victim
Imitating Oedipus, by Mark R. Anspach
Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim, by René Girard
Excerpt from Sweet Violence, by Terry Eagleton
Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex, by Jean-Pierre Vernant
Oedipus as Pharmakos, by Helene Peet Foley
Part Three. Oedipus on Trial
Excerpt from Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, by Michel Foucault
The Murderers of Laius, by William Chase Greene
The Murderers of Laius, Again (Soph. OT 106–7), by Rick M. Newton
Who Killed Laius? by Karl Harshbarger
Lêistas Ephaske: Oedipus and Laius’ Many Murderers, by Sandor Goodhart
An Anonymous Namer: The Corinthian’s Testimony, by Frederick Ahl
Index
Recenzii
The strength of the book lies in the choice of invigorating essays. . . . Mark Anspach has done brilliantly to combine a wide range of scholarly interests, from Burkert and Delcourt’s anthropological history to Terry Eagleton’s literary criticism, while maintaining a clear, common thread in the strong emphasis on the context of ritual, the scapegoat (pharmakos), and the superficiality of Oedipus’ guilt for the crimes with which he is associated. Particularly exciting is the way that the book plays with ideas of time, place and responsibility. . . . Anspach’s playful selection rewards prolonged study.—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Descriere
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. Weighing the evidence against him and placing the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. It features selections from Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and other eminent critics as well as a new translation of the play by Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson for Oxford University Press.