THE BODINESS OF A SHADOW: THE VISUALISATION OF AN INTEGRATED PERSONALITY IN MAX FREI’S ECHO NOVELS
Journal: CONTEMPORARY LITERARY STUDIES
Year: 2019

The research focuses on the analysis of postmodern playing with the semantic field of the concept of Shadow in Max Frei’s fantasy cycles The Labyrinths of Echo (Лабиринты Эхо, 1996 – 1997) and The Chronicles of Echo (Хроники Эхо, 2004 – 2013) through the prism of the combination of mythological motifs with the concepts of deep psychology by Carl Gustav Jung and Erich Neumann. Providing human shadow with the bodiness along with leveling up the binary oppositions deprives the “shadow” of its tradi