- Title
- The theme of premature burial in Garth Nix’s early novels
- Creator
- Mills, Alice
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38747
- Identifier
- vital:1793
- Identifier
- https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=300269739039058;res=IELHSS
- Identifier
- ISSN:1034-9243
- Abstract
- Garth Nix's novels 'The Ragwitch', 'Shade's Children' and 'Sabriel' in the psychoanalytic contexts of the Freudian concept of the uncanny and the Jungian concepts of rebirth and individuation are highlighted, arguing that the theme of premature burial functions in these books both as a Freudian locus for the uncanny and as a Jungian locus for individuation and rebirth. The heroic Jungian worldview of sword and sorcery in these novels encounters the more pessimistic Freudian worldview of Gothic horror, an uneasy point of contact from which Nix's fiction derives much of its idiosyncratic flavour.
- Publisher
- Deakin University, School of Literary and Communication Studies
- Relation
- Papers: Explorations into children's literature Vol. 16, no. 1 (2006), p. 51-57
- Rights
- Copyright Deakin University, School of Literary and Communication Studies
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2005 Literary Studies; Juvenile fiction; Death in literature; Fantasy
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