LEADER 04023nam 2200661 450 001 9910458367103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-8715-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442687158 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054163 035 $a(OCoLC)759157249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442470 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000486248 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11347184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486248 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430752 035 $a(PQKB)10240435 035 $a(CEL)433743 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272684 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672518 035 $a(DE-B1597)464120 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939032 035 $a(OCoLC)944176981 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442687158 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672518 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258184 035 $a(OCoLC)958516382 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054163 100 $a20160923h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOedipus against Freud $emyth and the end(s) of humanism in twentieth-century British literature /$fBradley W. Buchanan 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4426-4157-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations Used in Citations -- $tIntroduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine -- $t1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence's Anti-Humanism -- $t2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot -- $t3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry -- $t4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett -- $t5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf -- $tConclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSigmund 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.In 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHumanism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHumanism in literature. 676 $a820.9/384 700 $aBuchanan$b Bradley$f1970-$0506312 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458367103321 996 $aOedipus against Freud$92218100 997 $aUNINA