The Beauty of the Beast: Presence/Absence and the Vicissitudes of the Sphinx in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus.
Presents a paper on the vicissitudes and the presence and absence of the Sphinx in Sophocles' 'Oedipus Tyrannus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus'. Analysis of the character of the Sphinx in Freudian terms; Discussion on the successful response of Oedipus to the Sphinx's riddle; Reinforcement of the Sphinx'...
| Publicado en: | Boundary 2 Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1 - 19 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Duke University Press
Spring80
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| Sumario: | Presents a paper on the vicissitudes and the presence and absence of the Sphinx in Sophocles' 'Oedipus Tyrannus' and 'Oedipus at Colonus'. Analysis of the character of the Sphinx in Freudian terms; Discussion on the successful response of Oedipus to the Sphinx's riddle; Reinforcement of the Sphinx's non-reasonable nature by the use of Dionysian epithets and qualifiers; Explanation of the encounters of the Sphinx with Oedipus. |
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