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Download full textMurray, Joel K.; Bowman, Michael S. – 1987
A brief reading of "Desire under the Elms" by Eugene O'Neill illustrates how a conventional Oedipal reading of the playscript opens up spaces within the text for deconstructive free-play. In this case, a tension is identified and foregrounded between this conventional application of the Oedipal complex and Freud's interpretation of the…
Descriptors: Drama, Literary Criticism, Mythology, Text Structure
