Sounding the classics : from Sophocles to Thomas Mann / Rudolph Binion.

Author/creator Binion, Rudolph
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©1997.
Description160 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Fiction--History and criticism.

SeriesContributions to the study of world literature, no. 83, 0738-9345 ;
Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 83.
Contents Text and subtext -- The trouble with Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus the king -- Blood for blood: the Gospel according to Matthew -- In you my death, in you my life: the Tristan legend -- Lust forever: Dante's Inferno, The Francesca episode -- Strange mutations: Shakespeare's King Lear -- In flames and in tears: Racine's Phaedra -- A wanderer on earth: Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- On death row: Stendhal's The red and the black -- Like an echo fading: Flaubert's "A simple heart" -- Mankind revisited: Dostoyevsky's "The grand inquisitor" -- A lamed and tamed duck: Ibsen's The wild duck -- Death beckoning: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice -- From plagued Thebes to plagued Venice.
Local noteLittle-305024--305131010701M
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97001693
ISBN0313304580 (alk. paper)
ISBN0275959651 (pb : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN3353 .B56 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold