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001 2010283486
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020 $a9781442641570 (acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aPR478.M96$bB83 2010
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100 1 $aBuchanan, Bradley,$d1970-
245 10 $aOedipus against Freud :$bmyth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature /$cBradley W. Buchanan.
246 30 $aMyth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature
260 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$cc2010.
300 $ax, 199 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.
505 0 $aOedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence's Anti-Humanism -- Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot -- Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry -- Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett -- Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
520 $a"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 Modernist writers, 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.
520 $aIn the alternatives to the Freudian version of Oedipus offered by twentieth-century authors, Buchanan finds a complex examination of the limits of human understanding. Following the analyses of philosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel and Frederick Nietzsche and anticipating critiques by writers such as Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, British Modernists saw Oedipus as representative of the embattled humanist project. Closing with the concept of posthumanism as explored by authors such as Zadie Smith, Oedipus Against Freud demonstrates the lasting significance of the Oedipus story."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aOedipus (Greek mythology) in literature.
650 0 $aHumanism in literature.
600 10 $aFreud, Sigmund,$d1856-1939$xCriticism and interpretation.