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V; 230 S.; 22 cm. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Sehr gutes Ex.; tadellos. - Englisch. // Hardcover. - In Oedipus Tyrannus, the son's "retroactive discovery" of his father reveals a stunning truth and transforms guiltless murder into unbearable patricide. But which father is discovered? As Oedipus looks to several father figures-to Polybus, Teiresias, and Apollo, as well as Laius-he finds different laws and lessons and conflicting clues to his own identity. According to Pietro Pucci, the "truth" Oedipus discovers is in fact shifting fabrication, a son's struggle to answer the question "What is a father?" In Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father Pucci focuses on the plurality of father figures in Oedipus Tyrannus and offers a significantly new understanding of the nature of Oedipus's transgression. He examines the shifting relationship between father and son, along with notions of patricide and incest, destiny and chance, law and truth, and ironic revenge. Throughout, Pucci discusses important readings by other modern interpreters, including Freud, Lacan, and Heidegger as well as Reinhardt, Rudnytsky, Knox, Segal, and Vernant. Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father places the work of Sophocles in a contemporary theoretical context, offering a sophisticated and subtle relocation of the play at the center of current debates on textuality. "The reason the father has so many faces is that the father is a figure of the logos. The father comes into being not by spreading his seed, but with the logos: for only humans have a father, though animals are often begotten like humans. A father is a figure that, within the strategies of the logos, acquires a set of meanings and functions, source of the son's legitimacy, provider of livelihood and cares, holder of authority. Thus the father is a fountainhead of goods, an inspiration for the moral life of the son."-- from the Introduction. / Pietro Pucci is professor of classics at Cornell University. His books include Hesiod and the Language of Poetry. // INHALT : Introduction: What Is a Father? ---- The Narrative of the Oracle's Program (telos) ---- The Narrative of Chance and Randomness ---- Freud, Lacan: The Narratives of the ---- Unconscious ---- Appearance as a Mode of Being ---- The Name "Oidipous" ---- The Father by Chance and the Chance of ---- Being Born ---- The Randomness of the Generous Mother ---- Oedipus's Murder of the Father ---- The Fabrication of the Father Figure ---- Jocasta's Suicide and Oedipus's Self-blinding ---- Oedipus's New Image and Its Decomposition ---- Notes ---- References ---- Acknowledgments ---- Index. ISBN 0801843413