Desire, gender, power, language: a psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley’s <i>Frankenstein</i>

Psychoanalytic literary criticism has always had a particular fascination with texts dealing with the supernatural, the mysterious and the monstrous. Unfortunately such criticism, valuable and provocative though the insights it has provided have been, has all too often treated the text as a “symptom...

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Main Author: H. Kotze
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: AOSIS 2000-04-01
Series:Literator
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Online Access:https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/440