The Drama of the Double [electronic resource] : Permeable Boundaries /
Burkman, Katherine H.author.
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.
Includes index.
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.
The drama of the double -- Narcissus and doubling: Conrad, Shepard, Mamet -- Narcissus and Dionysus: The Bacchae and The crying game -- Harold Pinter's Death in Venice and Life in Victoria Station -- Hedda Gabler, Jules and Jim and Taxi driver -- Orestes: Aeschylus and O'Neill -- Doubling in the mythic dreamscapes of Samuel Beckett's Happy days -- Not I, and Rockaby -- More on Demeter: Marsha Norman's 'night mother -- Oedipus and Demeter: Pinters A slight ache -- Coda.
Performing arts.
Motion pictures-History.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Theater-History.
Performing Arts.
Film History.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Theatre History.