Readers and mythic signs : the Oedipus myth in twentieth-century fiction /

Some literary scholars view myth criticism as passe; an approach to literature that enjoyed a heyday in the l950s and 1960s before being replaced by approaches that are considered to be more theoretically sophisticated and satisfying, such as feminism, new historicism, and deconstruction. Moddelmog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moddelmog, Debra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1993.
Temas:
Oedipus > (Greek mythological figure) > In literature.
Oedipus > (Greek mythological figure)
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Mythology > Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Esthétique de la réception.
Mythologie > Aspect psychologique.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction
Literature
Mythology > Psychological aspects
Psychoanalysis and literature
Reader-response criticism
Letterkunde.
Oedipuslegende.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reading Myth from Joyce to Pynchon
  • 1. Myths and Their Signs
  • 2. A Poetics for Myth in Fiction
  • 3. The Power of the Solitary Mytheme: The Anti-Sphinx of Alternative Wastelands
  • 4. Mythemes and Questions of Genre: The Blindness of the Private Eye in Antidetective Fiction
  • 5. Reading Myths and Mythemes after Freud: From Oedipal Incest to Oedipal Insight
  • 6. The Epistemology of the Oedipus Myth.

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