2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations Used in Citations ix
5. Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine 1
6. 1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Anti-Humanism 21
7. 2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot 49
8. 3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry 71
9. 4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett 93
10. 5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf 123
11. Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith 149
12. Notes 171
13. Bibliography 181
14. Index 193