Daughters, death and desire in Fatal attraction, The piano and Talented Mr Ripley

The oedipal principle characteristic of the nineteenth-century novel of adultery survives into twentieth-century narrative fiction too, as exemplified in two films of the late century, Fatal Attraction (1987) and The Piano (1993). In both, a marriage is disrupted by the desire of an outsider. This a...

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Main Author: Naomi Segal
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2014-12-01
Series:Acta Neophilologica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/3095