| Title: | LITERARY FUNCTIONS OF THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN THREE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS PLAYS |
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| Authors: | ID Potočnik, Anamarija (Author)
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| Files: |  UNI_Potocnik_Anamarija_2011.pdf (381,32 KB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/85e685fc-f4e0-4efd-b8a0-50212fba2615
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof are the most successful Tennessee Williams' plays and among the most significant plays of the twentieth-century. The psychoanalytic approach was used to analyse the three Williams' plays, since they are full of recurring themes such as social isolation and loneliness and memorable characters with complex personalities. The characters of the Williams' plays are all based on real people from Williams' life or Williams himself, so the comparison to Williams' biography was crucial for the description of characters and for clarification of the literary functions of the Oedipus complex. The paper was not restricted to the Oedipus complex only, but it also included some other psychoanalytical concepts such as declarative memory, object-relational conflict and homosexual panic for better understanding of the characters and literary functions of Oedipus complex in The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The plays reveal Williams' life story. The sources of research were the three plays, literature about the author and psychoanalytic articles about Williams and Williams' plays. |
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| Keywords: | Tennessee Williams, Oedipus complex, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, psychoanalytical approach. |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [A. Potočnik] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2011 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-17173 |
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| UDC: | 821.111(73)(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 18118920 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:3VP9I5L2 |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 24.01.2011 |
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| Categories: | FF
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