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'...

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Published in:	Boundary 2 Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1 - 19
Main Author:	Moore, Kevin Z.
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Duke University Press Spring80
Subjects:	Sphinxes (Mythology) in literature Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature
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