Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life

by Thomas Van Nortwick

This study reads Sophocles' Oedipus plays as a drammatization of the masculine life-cycle, the events of Oedipus's life mirroring the struggle for meaning in different stages of the aging process.

185 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1998

Reviews

[Eli]

A bit on the dry side and repetitive, it still is refreshing to read something on Oedipus and masculinity that isn't completely derivative of Freud.