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Article: Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Electra after Freud: Myth and Culture. By Jill Scott. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2005. viii + 200 pp. 21.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-4261-2.
Scott provides a culturally specific and feminist reading of the presence of the myth of Electra in the English and German literary tradition after Freud. She does not offer a comprehensive examination of the subject, but one exploring the myth as a dominant Freudian trope of the modernist literary imagination which rivals the paradigm of Oedipus. The book focuses on a group of texts which include well-known treatments of Electra such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal's and Richard Strauss's Elektra, ...