Incest in literature

Incestis an importantthematic elementandplot devicein literature, with famous early examples such asSophocles' classicOedipus Rex,atragedyin which the title character unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother.^[1]It occurs in medieval literature,^[2]both explicitly, as related by denizens of Hell inDante'sInferno,and winkingly, as betweenPandarusandCriseydeinChaucer'sTroilus.^[3]TheMarquis de Sadewas famously fascinated with "perverse" sex acts such as incest,^[4]which recurs frequently in his works,The 120 Days of Sodom(1785),Philosophy in the Bedroom(1795), andJuliette(1797).

Modern literature

Vladimir Nabokov's novelAda or Ardor: A Family Chronicle(1969) deals very heavily with the incestuous relationships in the intricate family tree of the main character, Van Veen.^[5]In his novelHogg,written in 1969,Samuel R. Delanyemployed incest as a way to push the boundaries of heteronormative sex.^[6]Toni Morrison's debut novelThe Bluest Eye(1970) tells the story of Pecola, a young girl raped by her father.Dorothy Allisonwrote about incest and sexual abuse inTrash: Short Stories(1988) andBastard Out of Carolina(1992).

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Szobel, Ilana (2021).Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature.State University of New York Press.ISBN 978-1-4384-8457-0.
Leeson, Miles Richard John, ed. (2018).Incest in contemporary literature.Manchester: Manchester university press.ISBN 978-1-5261-2216-2.
Quilligan, Maureen (2005).Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England.University of Pennsylvania Press.ISBN 978-0-8122-1905-0.
Rank, Otto (1992).The incest theme in literature and legend: fundamentals of a psychology of literary creation.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.ISBN 978-0-8018-4176-7.
Rodi-Risberg, Marinella (2022).Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s.Cham: Springer International Publishing.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-96619-5.ISBN 978-3-030-96618-8.
Rouillard, Linda Marie (2020).Medieval Considerations of Incest, Marriage, and Penance.Cham: Springer International Publishing.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35602-6.ISBN 978-3-030-35601-9.

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