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Oedipus and the Sphinx - The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Hardcover, New)
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Oedipus and the Sphinx - The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (Hardcover, New)
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When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than
answer a riddle - he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would
become one of Western culture's central narratives about
self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold myth - in
which the hero crosses over into an unknown and dangerous realm
where rules and limits are not known - Oedipus and the Sphinx
offers a fresh account of this mythic encounter and how it deals
with the concepts of liminality and otherness. Almut-Barbara Renger
assesses the story's meanings and functions in classical antiquity
- from its presence in ancient vase painting to its absence in
Sophocles' tragedy - before arriving at two of its major reworkings
in European modernity: the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud
and the poetics of Jean Cocteau. Through her readings, she
highlights the ambiguous status of the Sphinx and reveals Oedipus
himself to be a liminal creature, providing key insights into
Sophocles' portrayal and establishing a theoretical framework that
organizes evaluations of the myth's reception in the twentieth
century. Revealing the narrative of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be
the very paradigm of a key transition experienced by all of
humankind, Renger situates myth between the competing claims of
science and art in an engagement that has important implications
for current debates in literary studies, psychoanalytic theory,
cultural history, and aesthetics.
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