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The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media
Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 23] 2020
► pp. 129–142

Oedipus in Manhattan

From Sophocles to Woody Allen

| University of Granada
Ductility is a characteristic of myth: provided that its fixed core isn’t altered, every kind of transformation is possible within it. Thus, the well-known oedipian myth in Sophocles’ version can be traced with changes in Woody Allen’s Oedipus rex. Perhaps because it belongs to the film New York Stories this version has been unregarded by critics. The wicked Greek hero becomes another wicked one: the Jew.
Keywords: Sophocles, Oedipus, Woody Allen, Classical Tradition
Published online: 10 March 2020
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