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54 Angelika Reichmann fatal death of his mythology. 2 0 Consequently, reading, as it is represented in Wolf Solent, reveals itself as "truly" carnivalesque in the Bakhtinian sense of the word. Works Consulted Bahtyin, Mihail. Prangois Rabelais művészete, a középkor és a reneszánsz népi kultúrája. Trans. Könczöl Csaba. Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 1982. BaxTHH, M. M. üpoőJieMbi noamuKU JIocmoeecKozo. Coőpanue coneneHUU. Vol. 6. MocKBa: PyccKEte cJioBapH, 2002: 5-300. Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text Trans. Richard Miller. London: Basil Black well, 1995. Boulter, Joe. Postmodern Powys — New Essays on John Cowper Powys. Kidderminster: Crescent Moon, 2000. Brooks, Peter. Psychoanalysis and Storytelling. Oxford, UK, Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1994. Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot — Design and Intention in Narrative. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 1984. Brooks, Peter. "The idea of a psychoanalytic literary criticism." Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature. Ed. Shlomith Rimmon-Kennan. London: Routledge, 1987: 1-18. de Man, Paul. Allegories of Reading. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. Fteud, Sigmund. "A költő és a fantáziamüködés." Trans. Szilágyi Lilla. Művészeti írások. Művei IX. Ed. Erős Ferenc. Budapest: Filum Kiadó, 2001: 115-200. Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents. Ed. and trans. James Stratchey. New York, London: W. W. Norton and Company, 1989. Rreud, Sigmund. On Metapsychology — The Theory of Psychoanalysis — "Beyond the Pleasure Principle", "The Ego and the Id" and Other 20 My reading of Wolf Solent thus partly corresponds to the one given by Ian Hughes in his "The Genre of John Cowper Powys's Major Novels," [Rethinking Powys — Critical Essays on John Cowper Powys, ed. Jeremy Robinson (Kidderminster, Crescent Moon, 1999), 37-48]. While I agree with him that "Powys finally succeeds admirably in his attempt to dramatise the philosophic education of a central figure" (46) in Wolf Solent, and reading the novel as a "philosophic romance" (37) elaborating the "philosophy of sensationalism" (40) does not exclude a carnivalesque reading, I still think that it implies a closure and a finite nature that do not characterise the novel.
