Literary Criticism
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Overview
... The Collector , which contains one of the most puni- tive sexual obsessions in modern fiction , Fowles said , " I've always been interested in the Bluebeard syndrome , and really , that book was simply embodying it in one particular ...Synopsis
Many twentieth-century novelists speak for a male psycho-class needing imaginative externalization of obsessive sexual fantasies of control of women. Attraction, avoidance, and guilt are powerful motivators for writers and readers alike, and the moral ambiguity of serial monogamy, as well as other forms of exploitative sexuality, prompt certain writers to construct symbolic expiation and repair in fiction.Book Details
Published
June 16, 1996
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages
258
ISBN
9780838635964