Вестник Московского государственного областного университета: Серия: Русская филология (Feb 2019)

TRICKSTER ARCHETYPE IN A. S. BYATT’S NOVELS

  • Гладунов Игорь Константинович

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-7278-2019-5-306-310
Journal volume & issue
no. 5
pp. 306 – 310

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The article presents an analysis of trickster archetype in contemporary British writer A. S. Byatt's works. The research aims to clarify its function that's achieved through the methods of Jung's myth criticism and intertextual analysis. The archetype is not only disclosed in features of characters images but is also displayed as the deepest layer of their palimpsest structure. The author concludes that a trickster opens ways to unconsciousness, which accounts for its horrifying influence on character building.

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