The Peastick Girl tells the story of Teresa Matheson, her sisters Mollie and Cass, and the untimely and mysterious death of their mother. Teresa has returned to Wellington after five years in Melbourne where she has written a quest novel for younger readers, had two affairs, and met the demon Arkeum. Haunted by childhood memories and visions she is isolated in a house near her family home. What is and what might have been intriguingly converge. She is rescued by the return of Nikolai, her Russian lover. In a remote, seemingly fairytale location she finally stumbles across the truth of her...
The Peastick Girl tells the story of Teresa Matheson, her sisters Mollie and Cass, and the untimely and mysterious death of their mother. Teresa has r...
The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children s literature.
Jung argued that the child archetype should never be mistaken for the real child. In this book Susan Hancock considers how the child is portrayed in literature and fairytale and explores the suggestion from Jung and Bachelard that the symbolic resonance of the miniature is inversely proportionate to its size.
We encounter many instances where the miniature characters are a visibly...
The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realm...