Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire

by René Girard

Book Overview

Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and Girard succeeds in making us see an age-old myth in a wholly new light.

The hard-to-find writings assembled here include three major early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747806
• ISBN13: 9780804747806
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"