Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction

by Debra A. Moddelmog and Associate Professor Debra A Moddelmog PhD

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 pass , 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809318466
• ISBN13: 9780809318469
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"