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Oedipus : a folklore casebook

Title
Oedipus : a folklore casebook / edited by Lowell Edmunds and Alan Dundes.
Publication
Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Edmunds, Lowell.
  • Dundes, Alan.
Description
274 pages; 23 cm
Subject
Oedipus (Tale)
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Garland, 1983.
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 -- Cu-chulainn and the Origin of Totemism / Geza Roheim -- 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.
ISBN
  • 0299148505 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0299148548 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95031697
OCLC
  • 32854002
  • ocm32854002
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries