Sounding the classics : from Sophocles to Thomas Mann / by Binion, Rudolph, 1927-2011

Table of Contents: “…Text and subtext -- The trouble with Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus the king -- Blood for blood: the Gospel according to Matthew -- In you my death, in you my life: the Tristan legend -- Lust forever: Dante's Inferno, The Francesca episode -- Strange mutations: Shakespeare's King Lear -- In flames and in tears: Racine's Phaedra -- A wanderer on earth: Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther -- On death row: Stendhal's The red and the black -- Like an echo fading: Flaubert's "A simple heart" -- Mankind revisited: Dostoyevsky's "The grand inquisitor" -- A lamed and tamed duck: Ibsen's The wild duck -- Death beckoning: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice -- From plagued Thebes to plagued Venice.…”