| dc.description.abstract | In the writing of several critics and scholars comparisons have been
made between Margaret Atwood^s Surfacing and the supernatural tales of
Henry James. This present study is based on the special relationship
that appears to exist between Surfacing and James’s final ghost story,
’’The Jolly Corner." By comparing the novel and the story and the significance
in both of their psychological ghosts, it is quite obvious that they are
remarkably similar; therefore, they invite similar critical approaches,
In this study the attempt to analyze Surfacing uses as a foundation the
psychological interpretation of "The Jolly Corner" by psychologist Saul
Rosenzweig. Rosenzweig has identified the ghost in James’s short Story
as one representing a portion or fragment of the author’s self whose
origin can be traced to James’s decision to emigrate from America, When
a similar approach is taken to Atwood’s Surfacing, the conclusion reached
is that the ghost in the novel represents a portion of Atwood’s self that
began to haunt her after the rejection of her first unpublished novel.
Up in the Air So Blue. | |
