Perpetual Adolescence

by Porterfield, Sally; Polette, Keith; Baumlin, Tita French

• ISBN13: 9781438428000
• ISBN10: 1438428006
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Explores the arrested development of American culture.

Author Biography

Sally Porterfield is former Director of the AS Drama Program at the University of Hartford, where she was Assistant Professor of Drama. She is the author of Jung's Advice to the Players: A Jungian Reading of Shakespeare's Problem Plays. Keith Polette is Professor of English at the University of Texas at EI Paso. His books include Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12. Tita French Baumlin is Professor of English at Missouri State University and coeditor (with James S. Baumlin and George H. Jensen) of Post-Jungian Criticism: Theory and Practice, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction to the Puer/Puella Archetype	p. 1
Culture on the Couch: Western Civilization's Journey from Crisis to Maturity	p. 13
Puer and Hellmouth: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Myth	p. 31
Puer in Nature: The Monster and the Grizzly Man	p. 47
Grounding Icarus: Puer Aeternus and the Suicidal Urge	p. 71
The Puer as American Hero	p. 89
Shaken, Not Stirred: James Bond and the Puer Archetype	p. 105
A Crown Must Be Earned Every Day: Seeking the Mature Masculine in High Art and Pop Culture	p. 123
"Protracted Adolescence": Reflections on Forces Informing the American Collective	p. 137
Senex and Puer in the Classroom: A Conflict of Consciousness in Education	p. 155
Insanity by the Numbers, Knowings from the Ground: Outgrowing and Outloving the Cult of Quantification	p. 169
The Marriage of the Puer Aeternus and Trickster Archetypes: Psychological Rebirth for the Puer Personality	p. 187
Little Girl Lost: Sylvia Plath and the Puella Aeterna	p. 203
Provincials in Time: The Provisional Life	p. 215
List of Contributors	p. 223
Index	p. 227
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