Overview
Employing the analytical psychology of Carl Jung, Matthew A. Fike provides a fresh understanding of individuation in Shakespeare. This study of ""the visionary mode"" - Jung s term for literature that comes through the artist from the collective unconscious - combines a strong grounding in Jungian terminology and theory with myth criticism, biblical literary criticism, and postcolonial theory. Fike draws extensively on the rich discussions in the Collected Works of C. G. Jung to illuminate selected plays such as A Midsummer Night s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Henriad, Othello, and Hamlet in new and surprising ways. Fike s clear and thorough approach to Shakespeare offers exciting, original scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars alike.
Full Product Details
Author: M. Fike
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9780230612198
ISBN 10: 0230612199
Pages: 203
Publication Date: 24 March 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
A Jungian Study of Shakespeare is a powerful analysis of the psychic and the historical in Shakespeare's plays. Both scholarly and lively, Fike brings such under-researched notions as unconscious, myth, trickster, a man's inner feminine, and the shadow of self and society into a new and satisfying understanding of Shakespeare's play. A strongly recommended addition to the scholarship of the Bard. --Susan Rowland, Professor of English and Jungian Studies, University of Greenwich
<p>“ A Jungian Study of Shakespeare is a powerful analysis of the psychic and the historical in Shakespeare’s plays. Both scholarly and lively, Fike brings such under-researched notions as unconscious, myth, trickster, a man’s inner feminine, and the shadow of self and society into a new and satisfying understanding of Shakespeare’s play. A strongly recommended addition to the scholarship of the Bard.”—Susan Rowland, Professor of English and Jungian Studies, University of Greenwich
A Jungian Study of Shakespeare is a powerful analysis of the psychic and the historical in Shakespeare s plays. Both scholarly and lively, Fike brings such under-researched notions as unconscious, myth, trickster, a man s inner feminine, and the shadow of self and society into a new and satisfying understanding of Shakespeare s play. A strongly recommended addition to the scholarship of the Bard. - Susan Rowland, Professor of English and Jungian Studies, University of Greenwich
Author Information
MATTHEW A. FIKE is Associate Professor of English at Winthrop University, USA.
