Pakistani Author Publishes New Book

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning, a new book by M. Ismail Wali, Ph.D., has been released by RoseDog Books.

A Midsummer Night's Dream and its symbolic variants-fiction, fancy, fantasy or imagination-have no practical value or pragmatic meaning unless and until placed in a Jungian context. In this regard, the mainstream criticism focuses on dream-literature as "escapistic." This study explores Jungian themes in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in such a way as to make it an experience for soul-making. The whole study revolves around the key idea of syzygy, which Jung uses to conceptualize the contra-sexual archetypes/psychic energies as anima in man and animus in woman respectively.

About the Author

Born in a hamlet on the right of the Yarkhoon River, Chitral, Pakistan, the author spent his academic years in Karachi, Swat, and Peshawar and has a B.A., M.A., Mphil and Ph.D. in English. He began his teaching career in 1986, and has taught English at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in public institutions. Presently, he works at the Institute of Management Sciences, Peshawar, to design and develop courses for Business English and Business Communication.

Aside from English, his fields of interest include comparative metaphysics and mysticism. His greatest ambition has been to study and introduce mysticism as spiritual aesthetics, complemented by imaginative writings as communication aesthetics. The research work on Shakespeare is part of the above mission.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare's Syzygy of Meaning is a 318-page paperback with a retail price of $31.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-8462-3. It was published by RoseDog Books of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information or to request a review copy, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.rosedog.com/pressroom or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.