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Bloom's Literary Th emes f Alienation Th e American Dream Civil Disobedience Dark Humor Death and Dying Enslavement and Emancipation Exploration and Colonization Th e Grotesque Th e Hero’s Journey Human Sexuality Th e Labyrinth Rebirth and Renewal Sin and Redemption Th e Sublime Th e Taboo Th e Trickster BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd ii 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1133::5522 PPMM BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd iiii 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0000 PPMM Bloom’s Literary Th emes THE TABOO BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd iiiiii 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0000 PPMM BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd iivv 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0000 PPMM Bloom’s Literary Th emes T H E TABO O Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University Volume Editor Blake Hobby BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd vv 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0011 PPMM Bloom’s Literary Themes: The Taboo Copyright ©2010 by Infobase Publishing Introduction ©2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any infor- mation storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bloom’s literary themes : the taboo / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-60413-444-5 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4381-3105-4 (e-book) 1. Taboo in literature. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Hobby, Blake. III. Title. PN56.T23B56 2010 809'.933552—dc22 2009038090 Bloom’s Literary Criticism books are available at special discounts when purchased in bulk quantities for businesses, associations, institutions, or sales promotions. Please call our Special Sales Department in New York at (212) 967-8800 or (800) 322-8755. You can find Bloom’s Literary Criticism on the World Wide Web at http://www.chelseahouse.com Series design by Kerry Casey Cover design by Takeshi Takahashi Composition by IBT Global, Inc. Cover printed by IBT Global, Inc., Troy NY Book printed and bound by IBT Global, Inc., Troy NY Date printed: January 2010 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on acid-free paper. , . Contents Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Th emes and Metaphors xi Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom xv Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Th omas De Quincey) 1 “Les Paradis Artifi ciels” by Charles Baudelaire, in Les Paradis Artifi ciels (1860) Dracula (Bram Stoker) 23 “Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” by Phyllis A. Roth, in Literature and Psychology (1977) Howl (Allen Ginsberg) 37 “Transgression, Release, and ‘Moloch’” by Jeff rey Gray Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) 51 “Totem, Taboo, and Julius Caesar” by Cynthia Marshall, in Literature and Psychology (1991) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D.H. Lawrence) 77 “1925-30” by Frank Kermode, in D.H. Lawrence (1973) Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 91 “‘I have only words to play with:’ Taboo and Tradition in Nabokov’s Lolita” by Samuel Schuman BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd vviiii 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0011 PPMM viii Contents Lord of the Flies (William Golding) 99 “Men of a Smaller Growth: A Psychological Analysis of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies” by Claire Rosenfi eld, in Literature and Psychology (1961) “Th e Miller’s Tale” (Geoff rey Chaucer) 113 “Social and Religious Taboos in Chaucer’s Th e Miller’s Tale” by Robert C. Evans “the mother” (Gwendolyn Brooks) 123 “Th e Taboo in Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘the mother’” by Kate Falvey Mourning Becomes Electra (Eugene O’Neill) 133 “‘I Forgive Myself!’: Escaping the Ever-Present Past in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra” by Scott Walters Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles) 143 “Chapter Nine” by Friedrich Nietzsche, in Th e Birth of Tragedy (1872) Th e Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) 147 “Taboo in Th e Picture of Dorian Gray” by Arundhati Sanyal Th e Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath 157 “‘God’s Lioness’—Sylvia Plath, Her Prose and Poetry” by Wendy Martin, in Women’s Studies (1973) “A Rose for Emily” (William Faulkner) 165 “Usher, Poquelin, and Miss Emily: the Progress of Southern Gothic” by Edward Stone, in Georgia Review (1960) Sabbath’s Th eater (Philip Roth) 177 “Th e Taboo in Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Th eater” by Julia F. Klimek BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd vviiiiii 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0011 PPMM Contents ix Th e Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie) 189 “Breaking Totems and Taboos: Rushdie’s Th e Satanic Verses” by Rossitsa Artemis Th e Poetry of Anne Sexton 199 “Th e Poetic Heroism of Anne Sexton” by Diana Hume George, in Literature and Psychology (1987) Th e Prose Works of Jonathan Swift 217 “Biographical Introduction” by W.E.H. Lecky, in Swift’s Tale of a Tub and Other Early Works (1897) Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Th omas Hardy) 227 “Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Th e ‘Pure Woman’” by Geoff rey Wagner, in Five for Freedom: A Study of Feminist Fiction Ulysses (James Joyce) 251 “Fetishizing the Bread of Everyday Life: Th e Taboo Gaze in ‘Nausicaa’” by Blake Hobby and Dustin Ryan Acknowledgments 259 Index 261 BBLLTT TThhee TTaabboooo ffiinnaall ppaassss..iinndddd iixx 1111//1100//22000099 1122::1144::0022 PPMM
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