Research Catalog

Title

Oedipus : a folklore casebook / edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Edmunds, Lowell.
• Dundes, Alan.

Description

ix, 274 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Oedipus (Tale)

Note

• Originally published: New York : Garland, 1983. With new bibliographical addendum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Oedipus Rex in Albania / Margaret Hasluck -- The Oedipus legend in south Slavic folk tradition / Friedrich S. Krauss -- An Oedipus myth in Gypsy tradition / Mirella Karpati -- The Legend of Oedipus / James G. Frazer -- Oedipus in Alur folklore / A.W. Southall -- Oedipus in Bushman folklore / Megan Biesele -- Oedipus in Papuan folklore / F.E. Williams -- The Dragon of Tagaung / R. Grant Brown -- Oedipus-type tales in Oceania / William A. Lessa -- Oedipus in the light of folklore / Vladimir Propp -- Is the legend of Oedipus a folktale? / Alexander H. Krappe -- On the Oedipus myth / Georgios A. Megas -- The Sphinx in the Oedipus legend / Lowell Edmunds -- Freud on Oedipus / Sigmund Freud -- Oedipus and Erichthonius: some observations of paradigmatic and syntagmatic order / John Peradotto -- Cú-chulainn and the origin of totemism / Géza Róheim -- The Oedipus complex in Burma / Melford E. Spiro -- Why Oedipus killed Laius: a note on the complementary Oedipus complex in Greek drama / George Devereux -- The Indian Oedipus / A.K. Ramanujan.

Call Number

JFD 96-15614

ISBN

• 0299148505 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299148548 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95031697

OCLC

32854002

Title

Oedipus : a folklore casebook / edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes.

Imprint

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Edmunds, Lowell.

Dundes, Alan.

Research Call Number

JFD 96-15614