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Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

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| Hardcover | 9780877549185

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Best known for its Freudian reading, Oedipus Rex suggests a whole series of dichotomies besides the unconscious sense of guilt and true innocence. There is also a struggle between free will and fate, illusion and truth, ambiguity and clarity, as well as art and reality. Interpreting this complex of Continue

Best known for its Freudian reading, Oedipus Rex suggests a whole series of dichotomies besides the unconscious sense of guilt and true innocence. There is also a struggle between free will and fate, illusion and truth, ambiguity and clarity, as well as art and reality. Interpreting this complex of duals remains a very lively task.

The title, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Sophocles, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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  • One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles’ fines ... (continue)

    One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Masterly use of dramatic irony greatly intensifies impact of agonizing events. Sophocles’ finest play, Oedipus Rex ranks as a towering landmark of Western drama.

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