René Girard is Professor Emeritus of French at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Violence and the Sacred (1977), The Scapegoat (1986), Job: The Victim of His People (Stanford, 1987), Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford, 1987), and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001).

"Readers of Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home."—COV&R Bulletin

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Acknowledgmentsi Editor's Introduction: Imitating Oedipusiii @toc2:1From the Novelistic Experience to the Oedipal Myth 000 2Oedipus Analyzed000 3Symmetry and Dissymmetry in the Myth of Oedipus000 4Doubles and the Pharmakos in Levi-Strauss, Frye, Derrida and Shakespeare000 5The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph000 @toc4:Notes000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sophocles, Oedipus rex, Sophocles Characters Oedipus, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, Psychology in literature, Competition (Psychology)Sophocles Influence, Incest in literature, Desire in literature

René Girard is Professor Emeritus of French at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Violence and the Sacred (1977), The Scapegoat (1986), Job: The Victim of His People (Stanford, 1987), Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford, 1987), and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001).

"Readers of Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home."—COV&R Bulletin

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Acknowledgmentsi Editor's Introduction: Imitating Oedipusiii @toc2:1From the Novelistic Experience to the Oedipal Myth 000 2Oedipus Analyzed000 3Symmetry and Dissymmetry in the Myth of Oedipus000 4Doubles and the Pharmakos in Levi-Strauss, Frye, Derrida and Shakespeare000 5The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph000 @toc4:Notes000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sophocles, Oedipus rex, Sophocles Characters Oedipus, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, Psychology in literature, Competition (Psychology)Sophocles Influence, Incest in literature, Desire in literature

René Girard is Professor Emeritus of French at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Violence and the Sacred (1977), The Scapegoat (1986), Job: The Victim of His People (Stanford, 1987), Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford, 1987), and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001).

"Readers of Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home."—COV&R Bulletin

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Acknowledgmentsi Editor's Introduction: Imitating Oedipusiii @toc2:1From the Novelistic Experience to the Oedipal Myth 000 2Oedipus Analyzed000 3Symmetry and Dissymmetry in the Myth of Oedipus000 4Doubles and the Pharmakos in Levi-Strauss, Frye, Derrida and Shakespeare000 5The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph000 @toc4:Notes000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sophocles, Oedipus rex, Sophocles Characters Oedipus, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, Psychology in literature, Competition (Psychology)Sophocles Influence, Incest in literature, Desire in literature