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Oedipus ubiquitous : the family complex in world folk literature / Allen Johnson and Douglass Price-Williams.

Title
Oedipus ubiquitous : the family complex in world folk literature / Allen Johnson and Douglass Price-Williams.
Author
Johnson, Allen W.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Price-Williams, Douglass Richard.
Description
xv, 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Tales > History and criticism
  • Oedipus complex in literature
  • Family violence > Folklore
  • Incest > Folklore
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Folklore
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-332) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. Analysis -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. A Brief History of Research on Family-Complex Tales -- Ch. 3. The Evidence from World Folk Literature -- Ch. 4. The Theory of the Family Complex in Folk Literature -- Ch. 5. Conclusion -- pt. II. The Folktales -- Europe and Euro-America -- Middle East and Africa -- South and East Asia -- Oceania -- Native North America -- Native South America.
ISBN
  • 0804725764 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804725772 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95041368^
OCLC
33132701
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library