Readers And Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth In Twentieth-Century Fiction
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1993
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- Title
- Readers And Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth In Twentieth-Century Fiction
- Author
- Moddelmog, Debra A.
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- As New
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809318466
- ISBN 13
- 9780809318469
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
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- American Literature Studies, English Literature Studies
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 OConnor, 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 to inspire interpretation, that every myth carries with it an intertextual body of theories regarding its meaning and yet remains capable of evoking new meaning. When used in fiction, myth therefore functions like a language, with the reader attempting to negotiate meaning for the myth or its key actions, its mythemes, while at the same time responding to the interpretive cues of the text itself. Because of the complicated demands placed on readers by both the myth and the text, readers who pursue myth in fiction are not simple translators or reactors but rather are participants in a dialogue involving numerous texts, a dialogue that is finally interminable.
In support of the poetics she proposes, Moddelmog presents several chapters devoted to the study of twentieth-century fiction in which the Oedipus myth appears. Each chapter focuses on a specific interpretative issue that is related to the experience of reading myth in fiction but one that also examines a genre of fiction in which the Oedipus myth recurs. Chapter 3 (on the science fiction of H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Philip José Farmer, Philip K. Dick, and Roger Zelazny) reveals not only how a single mytheme can evoke a complex reading process but also how each reading of a work containing a myth influences the next reading of a similar work. Chapter 4 (on antidetective works written by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon) addresses genre questions that the mytheme as structural unit calls forth. Chapter 5 (on psychological fiction written by Flannery OConnor, Alberto Moravia, and Max Frisch) looks at the appropriation of the Oedipus myth by psychoanalysis and the consequences of that appropriation by those who are reading and writing after Freud.
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Debra A. Moddelmog is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University.
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