This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles.
Reference Books
- Masterplots, Revised Second Edition (Ref PN 44 .M33 1996) Volume(s):
- Drama Criticism (Ref PN 1601 .D59) Volume(s):
- 1: 414-16, 424-25, 425-36, 436-39, 446-51, 458-69
- Drama for Students (Ref PN 1701 .D73) Volume(s):
- 1: 202-21 (Reproductions of essays also in Literature Criticism Online database.)
- Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (use this spelling 'Oedipous Tyrannos'.) (Ref PN 88 .C552) Volume(s):
- 2: 288-90, 292, 296, 2990302, 304-05, 309-10, 313, 316, 317-22, 324, 336-40, 342-51, 359-62, 371-76, 382-88, 393-97, 408-10, 415,22, 423-26, 426-27, 427-29
- 47: 269-360
- 51: 294, 300-301, 313 (volume not at GCC)
General Collection Books (may be checked out)
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles. (PA 4417 .S69 2003)
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone. (PA 4417 .S693 1999) (1996 ed. available in netLibrary)
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. (PA 4413 .O7 S66 2007)
- Bowra, C.M. Sophoclean Tragedy. (PA 4417 .B77)
- Cameron, Aistair. The Identity of Oedipus the King: Five Essays on the
Oedipus Tyrannus. (PA 4413 .O7 C3)
- Girard, Rene. Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire. (PA 4413 .O7 G57 2004)
- Hathorn, R.Y. "The Existential Oedipus." Tragedy, Myth, and Mystery. (PN 1892 .H27) (pp. 79-85)
- Jones, John. "Action and Actors: Antigone and Oedipus the King." On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy. (PA 3131 .J6 1980) (pp. 177-191)
- Kitto, H.D.F. "Sophocles." Poiesis: Structure and Thought. (PA
3054 .K5) (pp.153-242)
- Knox, Bernard M. W. The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy.
(PA 4417 .K55)
- Knox, Bernard M. W. Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time. (PA 4413 .O7 K55 1998) (also available through netLibrary)
- Nardo, Don, ed. Readings on Sophocles. (PA 4417 .R38 1997)
- O'Brien, M.J., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex: A Collection of Critical Essays.(PA 4413 .O7 O2)
- Scodel, Ruth. Sophocles. (PA 4417 .S44 1984)
- Segal, Charles. Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge. (PA 4413 .O7 S52, 2001) [Reserve]
- Segal, Charles. Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles. (PA 4417 .S4) (PA 4417 .S4 1999)
- Sewall, R. B. "Oedipus the King." The Vision of Tragedy. (PN 1892 .S43) (pp. 25-43)
- Smith, Helaine L. "Sophocles: The Oedipus Rex." Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama. (PA 3131 .S59 2006) (pp. 83-99)
- Versenyi, L. "Oedipus Tyrannus." Man's Measure: A Study of the Greek Image of Man from Homer to Sophocles. (PA 3052 .V4) (pp. 208-251)
- Wilder, Thornton. American Characteristics and Other Essays. (PS 3545 .I345 A79) (pp. 77-87)
E-Books
- Barrett, James. "Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice." Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy. (pp. 192-222) ebrary.
- Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone. (PA 4417 .S693 1996) netLibrary.
- Greenberg, Mitchell. "Oedipus." Canonical States, Canoncial Stages: Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama ebrary.
- Knox, Bernard M. W. Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles Tragic Hero and His Time. (PA 4413 .O7 K55 1998) netLibrary
- Rehm, Rush. "Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus." Greek Tragic Theatre. (pp.107-119) ebrary.
Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)
Articles
Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, Wilson OmniFile FullText Mega, Masterfile Premier, JSTOR, for recent journal articles like those posted below.
- Banker, Paul. "Doctorow's 'Billy Bathgate' and Sophocles's 'Oedipus Rex.'" Explicator 64.3 (2006): 177.
- Cardullo, Bert. "Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex.'" Explicator 47.4 (Summer, 1989): 41-. [Use Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier]
- Chase, Cynthia. "Oedipal Textuality: Reading Freud's Reading of Oedipus." Diacritics 9.1 (Spring, 1979): 53-68. [Use JSTOR]
- Daniels, Charles B. "Is Oedipus Smart?" Philosophy and Literature 30.2 (2006) 562+ [Use LION]
- Frank, Bernhard. "'Sophocles' Oedipus the King.'"Explicator
51.1 (Fall, 1992): [Use Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier]
- Green, Janet. "Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex.'" [comment on Bernhard Frank, Explicator 51(1992)] The Explicator 55.4 (1997):
2-4. [Use General OneFile, Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier
- Lesser, Simon O. "'Oedipus the King': The Two Dramas, the Two Conflicts."
College English 29.3 (1967): 175-197. [Use JSTOR]
- Nassaar, Christopher S. "Sophocles' Oedipus the King.'" Explicator55.4 (1997): 187-89. [Use General OneFile, Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier
- Reid, Stephen A. "Teaching 'Oedipus Rex.'" College English
29.8 (1968): 615-19. [Use JSTOR]
- Searle,
Leroy F. "The Conscience of the King: Oedipus, Hamlet, and the
Problem...." Comparative Literature (49.4 (1997):
316- .) [Use Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Wilson OmniFile,
Literature Online -LION]
- Stallybrass, Peter. "The Mystery of Walking." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32.3 (2002): 571-80. [Use Academic Search Premier or Project Muse]
- Vernant, Jean-Pierre. "Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of 'Oedipus Rex.'" New Literary History 9.3 (1978):
475-501. [Use JSTOR]
- Zelenak, Michael X. "The Troublesome Reign of King Oedipus: Civic Discourse and Civil Discord in Greek Tragedy." Theatre Research International
23.1 (1998): 60+. [Use General OneFile]
Revised and updated by Karen Grondin, Fall, 2008.
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