The Stuff That Dreams are Made on by Clifton Snider

The Stuff That Dreams are Made on by Clifton Snider

Jung believed that great literature compensates for collective psychic imbalance, either by offering alternatives or by reflecting the imbalance. In this study, Snider explores Jung's theories by focusing on a wide selection of Western literature. Included are chapters on Merlin as he was portrayed by Victorian authors, Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse, Virginia Woolfs Orlando and The Waves, The Member of the Wedding and Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the po-etry of W. H. Auden.

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On is a clear, straightforward treatment--free of academic and psychoanalytic jargon--of Jungian literary criticism. Snider's introduction is not only a first rate exposition of Jungian literary theory, but a lucid explanation of Jungian psychology as well. Particularly valuable is his chapter on Carson McCullers. All in all, a solid piece of critical work. -David Peck, professor of English and American Studies, author of Novels of Initiation

Clifton Snider, Ph.D., is the author of six books of poetry, including Blood and Bones and Impervious to Piranhas. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and articles on literature, composition, and popular culture have appeared in numerous journals. A specialist in Jungian analysis of literature, he is included in Natoli's Psychological perspectives on Literature. He teaches literature, composition, and creative writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Table of Contents

Jungian Theory and Its Literary Application

The Archetypal Wise Old Man: Merlin in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

The Archetypal Self in Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse

A Jungian Analysis of Schizophrenia in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

Androgyny in Virginia Woolf: Jungian Interpretations of Orlando and The Waves

Two Myths for Our Time: Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding and Clock Without Hands

The Archetype of Love in the Age of Anxiety: W. H. Auden

Clifton Snider, faculty emeritus at Cal State University Long Beach, is the internationally celebrated author of ten books of poetry. A career retrospective of his work, Moonman: New and Selected Poems, was published to great acclaim by World Parade Books in 2012. He has published four novels, including his first historical novel, The Plymouth Papers (Spout Hill Press, 2014). A Jungian/Queer literary critic, his book, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On, was published in 1991, and he has published hundreds of poems, short stories, reviews, and articles internationally. He pioneered LGBT literary studies at CSULB. His work has been translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, and Russian.

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ISBN 13	9780933029378
ISBN 10	0933029373
Title	The Stuff That Dreams are Made on
Author	Clifton Snider
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Chiron Publications
Year published	2013-11-14
Number of pages	176
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