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edocfu_9958353204202883
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442687158
Content:
In Oedipus Against Freud, Bradley W. Buchanan re-examines the Oedipal narratives of authors such as D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce in order to explore their conflicted attitudes towards the humanism that underpins Freud's views.
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Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine --
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1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Anti-Humanism --
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2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot --
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3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry --
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4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett --
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5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf --
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Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442687158
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687158
