A new interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus
Subtitle: in the light and darkness of Apollo
By: Shigenari Kawashima ; translated by Naoko Yamagata ; with a foreword by P.E. Easterling
Contributors: Yamagata, Naoko, translator; Easterling, P. E., writer of supplementary textual content
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780773400573
Subjects: Truth in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Chance in literature; Providence and government of God in literature
Description: This unique and fresh interpretation of an enigmatic classic provides a better understanding of the play's religious and political undertones with an innovative and focused examination which proposes an earlier recognition than previously assumed of the whole truth by Jocasta. This will become an indispensable reference book for Classical scholars in this first ever English translation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: A New Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: In the Light and Darkness of Apollo; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Abstract; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Translator's Introduction; Prologue; title: Preface to Drama; Chapter 1; title: Chance (Tyche) and Irony; Chnapter 2; title: Tiresias and Creon; Chapter 3; title: Jocasta and The Oracle of Apollo; Chapter 4; title: Jocasta and Tyche (Chance); Chapter 5; title: The Second Stasimon; Chapter 6; title: Truth (Aletheia) and Daimon; Chapter 7; title: The Blind Oedipus; Bibliography; Index.