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The ecocritical psyche : literature, evolutionary complexity and Jung

By: Material type: TextTextLondon/New York Routledge c2012Description: xiii, 190p.; glossary; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415550949
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Contents:
1 Introduction. 2 The problem of the body in/out of nature for Jane Austen and Seamus Heaney. 3 The problem of Heaven and Hell for Emily Bronte. 4 Re-figuring evolution for children's literature. 5 Hunting signs with the trickster detectives. 6 Shakespeare's magical power. 7 The writer and the underworld
Abstract: '...unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen....It develops Jungian aesthetics to show how Jung's symbols correlate with natural signifying, providing analytical psychology with a natural home in ecocritical literary theory.'
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1 Introduction. 2 The problem of the body in/out of nature for Jane Austen and Seamus Heaney. 3 The problem of Heaven and Hell for Emily Bronte. 4 Re-figuring evolution for children's literature. 5 Hunting signs with the trickster detectives. 6 Shakespeare's magical power. 7 The writer and the underworld

'...unites literary studies, ecocriticism, Jungian ideas, mythology and complexity evolution theory for the first time, developing the aesthetic aspect of psychology and science as deeply as it explores evolution in Shakespeare and Jane Austen....It develops Jungian aesthetics to show how Jung's symbols correlate with natural signifying, providing analytical psychology with a natural home in ecocritical literary theory.'

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