Electra after Freud : Myth and Culture /
"Scott reads several pivotal texts featuring Electra to demonstrate what she calls "a narrative revolt" against the dominance of Oedipus as archetype. Situating the Electra myth within a framework of psychoanalysis, medicine, opera, and dance. Scott investigates the heroine's rol...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.