Islands and transformation: An archetypal pattern in Western literature
This dissertation proposes the castaway and the island experience as a parallel to the hero and the hero's journey as a metaphor for what C. G. Jung has called the individuation process. The island setting as a site for the spiritual, emotional, or psychological transformation of a character ha...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1996
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9709593 |