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Oedipus against Freud : Myth and the End(s) of Humanism in 20th Century British Lit /
Sigmund Freud's interpretation of the Oedipus myth - that subconsciously, every man wants to kill his father in order to obtain his mother's undivided attention - is widely known. Arguing that the pervasiveness of Freud's ideas has unduly influenced scholars studying the works of Mode...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations Used in Citations
- Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine
- 1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence's Anti-Humanism
- 2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot
- 3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry
- 4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett
- 5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
- Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index