Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Annis Pratt
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Sociology
- Subjects: Sexism, Gender roles, Psychology or psychologists, Authors or writers, Literature, Women’s issues, Women, Symbolism, Subconscious
Form and Content
Convinced that women’s fiction over the past three hundred years has formed a body of work with a continuity of themes and issues, Annis Pratt undertook an investigation into what specifically ties women’s fiction together. She based her research on the Jungian notion of archetypes. Psychologist Carl Jung had suggested that throughout history humans have been heir to unconscious, primordial images that exist across cultures and across time, which he named archetypes. Pratt set out to look for what archetypal images underlie women’s fiction, and whether...
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