Monstrous and Beautiful
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Produktnummer:
9786204735184
The subject of this research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and this book addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a female monster figure of "Immortal Vice", Oscar Wilde created a document that captures two contradictory narratives: one in which Salomé plays the heroine of a tragedy and another in which she performs the role and functions of a villain. By employing Carl Jung's psychology of the archetypes, I am enabled to read Wilde's play as a cultural and psychological phenomenon that (self-consciously) constructs a religious and patriarchal narrative around its central female character, which captures her in a tragedy of socially imposed destruction. Ultimately, this paper poses a psychological assessment of Salomé, in which Jungian archetypes illustrate--at a psychic level--Oscar Wilde's precocious and liberal-minded modernizations of a two thousand-year old myth.
| Autor: | Rajnish, Nayana |
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| EAN: | 9786204735184 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 52 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
| Untertitel: | Jungian Archetypes in Wilde's Salome. DE |
| Schlagworte: | Oscar Wilde Salome Carl Jung tragedy patriarchy heroine Bible John the Baptist Jokanaan King Herod |
| Größe: | 150 × 220 |
