2. SHAKESPEARE'S ELECTRA. Heiner Muller's Hamletmaschine

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Whose Century? Electra versus Oedipus 1
5. 1. BEYOND TRAGIC CATHARSIS. Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra 25
6. 2. SHAKESPEARE'S ELECTRA. Heiner Muller's Hamletmaschine 44
7. 3. FROM PATHOLOGY TO PERFORMANCE. Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Elektra and Sigmund Freud's "Fraulein Anna O." 57
8. 4. CHOREOGRAPHING A CURE. Richard Strauss's Elektra and the Ironic Waltz 81
9. 5. OEDIPUS ENDANGERED. Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities 95
10. 6. RESURRECTING ELECTRA'S Voice. H.D.'s A Dead Priestess Speaks 120
11. 7. A POETICS OF SURVIVAL. Sylvia Plath's Electra Enactment 141
12. CONCLUSION. Electra and the New Millennium 165
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 173
14. INDEX 191