SOURCE: “Myths of Poesis, Hermeneusis, and Psychogenesis: Hoffmann, Tagore, and Gilman,” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring, 1997, p. 227.
In the following essay, Smith discusses the archetypal, mythical elements of the maze, the goddess, and descent into the underworld in Tagore's “The Hungry Stones,” as well as in stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
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