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001 2013000531
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100 1 $aRenger, Almut-Barbara,$eauthor.
245 10 $aOedipus and the Sphinx :$bthe threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau /$cAlmut-Barbara Renger ; translation by Duncan Alexander Smart and David Rice, with John T. Hamilton.
264 1 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2013.
300 $avi, 126 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 113-122) and index.
600 00 $aOedipus$c(Greek mythological figure)
650 0 $aSphinxes (Mythology)
600 00 $aSophocles.$tOedipus Rex.
600 00 $aOedipus$c(Greek mythological figure)$xIn literature.
650 0 $aSphinxes (Mythology) in literature.
650 0 $aMythology, Greek$xAppreciation.
600 10 $aFreud, Sigmund,$d1856-1939$xKnowledge$xMythology.
600 10 $aCocteau, Jean,$d1889-1963$xKnowledge$xMythology.
700 1 $aSmart, Duncan,$etranslator.
700 1 $aHamilton, John T.,$etranslator.
700 1 $aRice, David G.$q(David Gerard),$d1945-$etranslator.
880 0 $6505-00/(S$aOedipus before the Sphinx in antiquity: on Sophocles. The Prince of Thebes and the Monster ; In the hero's account: the monstrum from Seneca to Corneille ; "Betwixt and between": the threshold theories of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner ; A "double-formed monster": the Sphinx as threshold figure in antiquity ; "Dipe est double": hero and monster in Jean-Pierre Vernant ; Coda I: one monster confronts another ; Oedipus before the Sphinx as a warning against Hubris ; Thresholds: zone, transformation, transition -- Oedipus before the Sphinx in modernity: on Freud and Cocteau. Freud the riddle solver and the "riddle of the feminine" ; Infantile and juvenile wish fulfillment: Freud as κρατιοτος ανηρ ; Perversion and Hubris: thoughts on the anecdote of Freud's "Turning Pale" ; "The night that concerns me is different": Cocteau's distancing from Freud ; Between finding and invention: "archaeology" as a shared figure of thought in Freud and Cocteau ; "No-man's-land between life and death": Cocteau's "zone" between visible and invisible worlds ; "Where dream and reality merge": mythic personalities between dream and reality ; "An Oedipus and the Sphinx": Cocteau's Machine infernale ; Deprived of characterization by basic principles: "Oedipe et le Sphinx" on the threshold ; Coda II: with Sophocles contra Freud: Cocteau's work of Enlightenment .