Women in twentieth-century literature

Subtitle:
A Jungian view

Author:
Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz 1926-2010

Place of Publication:
University Park, Pennsylvania

Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press


ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0271001932

Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:
Book

LoC Call Number:
PN 56.5 .W64 K57 1987

Accession Number:
062945

Keyword Subject Headings:
Women in literature
Femininity in literature
Literature, Jungian reading of
Archetype (Psychology) in literature
Depth psychology and literature
Garcia Lorca, Federico 1898-1936
Bowen, Elizabeth 1899-1973
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen) 1885-1962
Ginzburg, Natalia 1916-1991
O'Connor, Flannery 1925-1964
Rhys, Jean 1890-1979
Sarraute, Nathalie 1900-1999
Pa Chin (Ba Chin, Li Yaotang) 1904-2005
Enchi, Fumiko (Fumiko Ueda) 1905-1986
Desai, Anita 1937-

User Notes:
Hardback, viii + 249 pp. including notes and index Contents: Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma: A woman's mystery Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the heart: The teenage archetype Isak Dinesen's "Peter and Rosa": An alchemical transfiguration from Fixatio to Solutio Natalia Ginzburg's All our yesterdays: The introverted cocotte and the insect Flannery O'Connor's "Everything that rises must converge": Sacrifice, a castration Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: Mother/daughter identification and alienation Nathalie Sarraute's Between life and death: Androgyny and the creative process Pa Chin's Family: The patriarchate dismembered Fumiko Enchi's Masks: A sacred mystery Anita Desai's Fire on the mountain: A rite of exit