- 190 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how five Greek myths – Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter – inform the literature. Taking a psychological/mythical approach, this book explores the inner divisions that lead to boundary loss and the search for the self that may lead to boundaries found. The contention of the book is that the oedipal search for self has been replaced in modern literature by individuals caught up in a narcissistic culture. Katherine H. Burkman explores plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, and Will Eno.
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Literary Criticism TheoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prelude: Stories
- 1. The Drama of the Double
- 2. Narcissus and Doubling: Conrad, Shepard, and Mamet
- 3. Narcissus and Dionysus: The Bacchae and The Crying Game
- 4. Harold Pinter’s Death in Venice and Life in Victoria Station
- 5. Hedda Gabler , Jules and Jim , and Taxi Driver
- 6. Orestes: Aeschylus and O’Neill
- 7. Doubling in the Mythic Dreamscapes of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Not I, and Rockaby
- 8. More on Demeter: Marsha Norman’s ‘Night, Mother
- 9. Oedipus and Demeter: Pinter’s A Slight Ache
- Coda
- Notes
- Index
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