Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature

Douglas Cairns, Allen Johnson, Douglass Price‐Williams

Classics Ireland · 1999 · 39 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales 3. The evidence from world folk literature 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature 5. Conclusion Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America 2. Middle East and Africa 3. South and East Asia 4. Oceania 5. Native North America 6. Native South America.