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Readers and Mythic Signs : The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-century Fiction by Associate Professor Debra A Moddelmog PhD is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Debra A. Moddelmog offers the first book to explore fully the process of reading and interpreting myth in fiction. Some literary scholars view myth criticism as passé, an approach to literature that enjoyed a heyday in the l950s and 1960s before being replaced by approaches that are considered to be more theoretically sophisticated and satisfying, such as feminism, new historicism, and deconstruction. Moddelmog argues that there are many good reasons not to cast out myth criticism from the community of critical approaches. Most obvious among them is that myth has attracted many writers of this century—from James Joyce to Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf to Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Mann to Alain Robbe-Grillet, William Faulkner to Alberto Moravia—and that to ignore myth is to dismiss an essential part of their work. Moddelmog suggests that by reconstruing the relationship between myth and literature, we will find that mythic approaches are frequently not only necessary but also highly stimulating, engaging readers in many varieties of questions, quests, and conclusions. Thus in this study she provides a poetics for myth in twentieth-century fiction, arguing that the nature of myth is

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Author

Associate Professor Debra A Moddelmog PhD

Publisher

Order Department, Southern Illinois University Press, P.O. Box 3697, Carbondale, IL 62902-3697 ($24.95 plus $2.75 postage/handling)

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585135458

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Travel