The Oedipus Casebook Reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Intro -- 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 -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries