Bond and Beyond: The Political

Bennett, Toity and Janet Woollacott. 1987. Bond and Beyond The Political Career of a Popular Hero. London Macmillan. 

Beimett, Tony and Janet WooUacott. 1987. Bond and Beyond The Political Career of a Popular Hero. Basingstoke, Macmillan. Berberich, Christine. 2007. The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth-Century Literature Englishness and Nostalgia. Aldershot Ash te. 

While Brechtian strategies may prove an appropriate entry to an understanding of Bond s plays, they are not enough [...] Without further development of a critical discourse appropriate to Bond s drama, and without closer, more subtle readings of actual plays, scholars run the risk of repeating the mistakes of [...] reproducing the very divisions between politics and aesthetics that so many playwrights since Brecht have tried to move beyond. (Spencer, 1992, p. 11)... 

One can imagine the scorn he would pour upon Freud, as a bourgeois ideologue out to fix human nature beyond all social determination [...] Sexuality for Freud is not a need but a drive [...] The continuity between our infantile needs and adult politics which Bond wishes to underline occurs only in the context of the most unsettling discontinuity we are ever likely to experience -the break precisely, from nature to culture, need to desire, of which the Oedipus is effective sign. (Eagleton, 1984, pp. 131-2)... 

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