Sigmund Freud's theory about the meaning of Sophocles' classical Greek play did not spur the sudden burst of literary allusions to the figure of Oedipus, contends Buchanan (English, California
State U.-Sacramento), but reflected a renewed interest that was already in full swing by 1910 when the notion of an Oedipus complex was first articulated. After establishing a pre-Freudian
baseline in H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, he looks at allusions in D. H. Lawrence; Wyndham Lewis and T. S. Eliot; Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcom Lowry; W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and
Samuel Beckett; E. M Forster and Virginia Woolf; and post-structuralist narratives by Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
