Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's "Country of the Pointed Firs"

by Joseph Church

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Adopting a psychoanalytical approach, this book argues that Jewett's book allegorizes a troubled daughter's return to familial origins, and dramatizes her reengagement with and effort to transcend unconscious figures (particularly parental) established during early maturation.
  • ISBN10 0838635601
  • ISBN13 9780838635605
  • Publish Date 31 January 1995
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 17 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Language English