The Dead Father | Techniques/Literary Precedents
A work devoted to undermining authority in all its forms, particularly that of the past, will necessarily take the form of a parody. The Dead Father is a carnivalesque parodying, not of any single authority but of a host of writers, texts, and beliefs as vast as the symbolic father himself. Freud may be the most recognizable target, but he is certainly not the only one. The self-evident journey motif parodies the mythic substructure of high modernist works such as T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922), James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), and Ezra Pound's Cantos...
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