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Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1995-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 029914853X |
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Classicist Lowell Edmunds and folklorist Alan Dundes both note that “the Oedipus tale is not likely to ever fade from view in Western civilization, [as] the tale continues to pack a critical family drama into a timeless form.” Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles’ drama—the ancient Theban myth of the son who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother—Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook examines variations of the tale from Africa and South America to Eastern Europe and the Pacific. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological, and structuralist perspectives, the nineteen essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale. In addition to the well-known interpretations of the Oedipus myth by Sigmund Freud and James Frazer, this casebook includes insightful selections by an international group of scholars. Essays on a Serbian Oedipus legend by Friedrich Krauss and on a Gypsy version by Mirella Karpati, for example, stress the psychological stages of atonement after the Oedipus figure learns the truth about his actions. Anthropologist Melford E. Spiro investigates the myth’s appearance in Burma and the significance of the mother’s identification with the dragon (the sphinx figure). Vladimir Propp’s essay, translated into English for the first time, and Lowell Edmunds’s theoretical review discuss the relation of the Oedipus story to the larger study of folklore. The result is a comprehensive and fascinating casebook for students of folklore, classical mythology, anthropology, and sociology.
Author | : Lowell Edmunds |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824089535 |
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Author | : Sophocles |
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Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Jane Garry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 747 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351576151 |
Download Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an authoritative presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world. Each entry is written by a noted authority in the field, and includes accompanying reference citations. Entries are keyed to the Motif-Index of Folk Literature by Stith Thompson and grouped according to that Index's scheme. The reference also includes an introductory essay on the concepts of archetypes and motifs and the scholarship associated with them. This is the only book in English on motifs and themes that is completely folklore oriented, deals with motif numbers, and is tied to the Thompson Motif-Index. It includes in-depth examination of such motifs as: Bewitching; Chance and Fate; Choice of Roads; Death or Departure of the Gods; the Double; Ghosts and Other Revenants; the Hero Cycle; Journey to the Otherworld; Magic Invulnerability; Soothsayer; Transformation; Tricksters.
Author | : Alan Dundes |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : 9780299150730 |
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Author | : Martin Kallich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Alan Dundes |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780299120344 |
Download Little Red Riding Hood Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Alan Dundes of the University of California, Berkeley, continues his exploration of well-loved fairy tales with this casebook on one of the best-known of them all: Little Red Riding Hood. The twelve essays are by international scholars representing an impressive cross section of theoretical approaches."--Page 4 of cover.
Author | : Claude Calame |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801438929 |
Download Masks of Authority Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres, Claude Calame, an internationally known classicist, draws the lineaments of a real history of the means used by ancient Greek poets to create in their works a fictional authorship. In this collection of essays, he shows that they made of their poems, through various discursive strategies, texts to be performed, with the collective, ritual, and pragmatic values implicit in the ideas of craft and performance. How is it possible to distinguish between the external context and reception of a discursive work and the elaborate poetic effects produced in the text itself by means of language? Clearly, the partly fictional figure of the author "constructed" by the text is not the same as the biographical author. In ancient Greece, moreover, the person of the composer of a poem was often distinct from the person of its performer.Important examples in Masks of Authority include some of the Homeric Hymns, didactic poetry by Hesiod, a bucolic poem of Theocritus, performed poetry by Sappho and mimetic poems by Callimachus, Attic tragedy and comedy in masked performances (Sophocles and Aristophanes), an iconographic inscription, an authoritative scientific discourse by Hippocrates, and an initiatory commentary to an Orphic theogony. The result is a selective history of Greek poetics from the perspective of its authorial devices and social functions, its place between oral and written traditions.
Author | : Kirk Ormand |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119025532 |
Download A Companion to Sophocles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134560451 |
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In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella * a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis * a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults.