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Electra after Freud : myth and culture /

"Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, Jill, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Colección:Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beyond tragic catharsis, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra
  • Shakespeare's Electra, Heiner Müller's Hamletmaschine
  • From pathology to performance, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra and Sigmund Freud's "Fräulein Anna O"
  • Choreographing a cure, Richard Strauss's Elektra and the ironic waltz
  • Oedipus endangered, Robert Musil's The man without qualities
  • Resurrecting Electra's voice, H.D.'s A dead priestess speaks
  • A poetics of survival, Sylvia Plath's Electra enactment
  • Conclusion, Electra and the new millennium.