| Upon first reading Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine trilogy I was struck by two realizations: one, it is without a doubt a love story; and two, certain elements of its narrative appear inconsistent with the love story genre and prove problematic in terms of interpretation.;In order to explain these apparent inconsistencies in the narrative, it was necessary to identify critical perspectives that could be used to interpret them. Guided by the predominant motifs of the trilogy, I selected the writings of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung and W. B. Yeats to provide theoretical viewpoints from which to regard the narrative. Campbell's theories regarding comparative mythologies and the monomyth are the focus of chapter one in this thesis. Jung's concept of the collective unconscious, specifically as it relates to the interaction of the ego, shadow, anima and animus archetypes, is the concern of chapter two. The influence of Yeats's A Vision and "The Second Coming" are dealt with in chapter three. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
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