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Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut - Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Hardcover)
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Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut - Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
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In this book, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff explores short stories by Ray
Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, written between 1943 and 1968, with a
post-Jungian approach. Drawing upon archetypal theories of myth
from Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and their forbearer C. G. Jung,
Ellerhoff demonstrates how short fiction follows archetypal
patterns that can illuminate our understanding of the authors,
their times, and their culture. In practice, a post-Jungian
'mythodology' is shown to yield great insights for the literary
criticism of short fiction. Chapters in this volume carefully
contextualise and historicize each story, including Bradbury and
Vonnegut's earliest and most imaginatively fantastic works. The
archetypal constellations shaping Vonnegut's early works are shown
to be war and fragmentation, while those in Bradbury's are family
and the wholeness of the sun. Analysis is complemented by the
explored significance of illustrations that featured alongside the
stories in their first publications. By uncovering the ways these
popular writers redressed old myths in new tropes-and coined new
narrative elements for hopes and fears born of their era-the book
reveals a fresh method which can be applied to all imaginative
short stories, increasing understanding and critical engagement.
Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and
Kurt Vonnegut is an important text for a number of fields, from
Jungian and Post-Jungian studies to short story theoriesand
American studies to Bradbury and Vonnegut studies. Scholars and
students of literature will come away with a renewed appreciation
for an archetypal approach to criticism, while the book will also
be of great interest to practising depth psychologists seeking to
incorporate short stories into therapy.
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