Sounding the classics
Subtitle: from Sophocles to Thomas Mann
By: Rudolph Binion.
Series: [Contributions to the study of world literature -- no. 83]; Contributions to the study of world literature -- no. 83.
Publisher: Praeger; Greenwood Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Fiction -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Text and subtext; title: The trouble with Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus the king; title: Blood for blood: the Gospel according to Matthew; title: In you my death, in you my life: the Tristan legend; title: Lust forever: Dante's Inferno, the Francesca episode; title: Strange mutations: Shakespeare's King Lear; title: In flames and in tears: Racine's Phaedra; title: A wanderer on earth: Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther; title: On death row: Stendhal's The red and the black; title: Like an echo fading: Flaubert's "A simple heart"; title: Mankind revisited: Dostoyevsky's "The grand inquisitor"; title: A lamed and tamed duck: Ibsen's The wild duck; title: Death beckoning: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice; title: From plagued Thebes to plagued Venice.