Bücher von Lowell (Professor Edmunds

Mencken called "the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet."

Drawing on more than seventy works that dispersed the Oedipus legend from Greece to Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Edmunds provides a foundation for discussion of the lasting appeal of this legend, for claims of its universality, and for its uses as a vehicle for personal and cultural expression.

Intertextuality is a matter of reading.