Rereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.
This groundbreaking collection brings the range and diversity of post-Jungian thought into the realm of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. These essays explore, expand, critique, and apply post-Jungian critical theory as they revisit and reread Jung's own writings from numerous perspectives. No longer treated as a source of clear, unequivocal, authoritative pronouncement, Jung's writings are themselves subjected to critical, deconstructive readings, and several of the essays confront head-on Jung's evident racism, antifeminism, anti-Semitism, and political conservatism. While not downplaying such charges, the contributors outline an alternative, post-Jungian theory responsive to contemporary feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural concerns. The result is not just a critical reinterpretation but, more important, a regeneration of Jungian thought.
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US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Höhe: 232 mm
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Dicke: 19 mm
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978-0-7914-5958-4 (9780791459584)
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James S. Baumlin , Tita French Baumlin , and George H. Jensen are Professors of English at Southwest Missouri State University. James S. Baumlin is the author of John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse; the coeditor (with Tita French Baumlin) of Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory; and (with Phillip Sipiora) of Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis, also published by SUNY Press. George H. Jensen is the author of many books, including, most recently, Identities Across Texts.
Foreword
Andrew Samuels
Introduction: Situating Jung in Contemporary Critical Theory
George H. Jensen
Jung's Ghost Stories: Jung for Literary Theory in Feminism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism
Susan Rowland
Theorizing Writerly Creativity: Jung with Lacan?
Oliver Davis
Detective Films and Images of the Orient: A Post-Jungian Reflection
Luke Hockley
Airing (Erring) the Soul: An Archetypal View of Television
Keith Polette
Jane Iterare: Jane Eyre as a Feminist Revision of the Hero's Journey
Tita French Baumlin and James S. Baumlin
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Jungian Images in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
Sophia Andres
Drs. Jung and Chekhov: Physicians of the Soul
Sally Porterfield
Opened Ground from a Jungian Perspective: The Father Archetype in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
J. R. Atfield
"The Sun's Children": Shadow Work in the Poetry of LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka
Rebecca Meacham
Sharing a Shadow: The Image of the Shrouded Stranger in the Works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
James T. Jones
In the Buddha's Shadow: Jung, Zen, and the Poetry of Jane Hirshfield
Andrew Elkins
A Bibliography of Jungian and Post-Jungian Criticism, 1980-2000
Marcia Nichols
Notes on Contributors
Index
