Transcendent Writers in Stephen King''s Fiction - A Post-Jungian Analysis of the Puer Aeternus

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Stephen King’s Transcendent Writers: Stereotypes or Archetypes?

Chapter 2: ‘The Body’

Chapter 3: Carrie

Chapter 4: The Shining

Chapter 5: ’Salem’s Lot

Chapter 6: Stories within Stories: Adolescence and Education

Conclusion

Literature

About the author

Joeri Pacolet teaches philosophy in several schools in and near Leiden, The Netherlands.

Summary

Transcendent Writers in Stephen King’s Fiction combines a post-Jungian critical perspective of the puer aeternus. Offering new insight into King’s work, it provides reconceptualisation of the eternal youth to develop a new theory: the concept of the transcendent writer.

Product details

• Authors: Joeri Pacolet
• Assisted by: Laura Vroomen (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661717
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66171-7
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000