Critical Approaches to Literature: Psychological

Author Robert Evans

Publisher Salem Press

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Author

Robert Evans

Publisher

Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2018

ISBN13

9781682172735

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Format

eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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This series is designed to provide students and researchers with fresh insight into the various critical approaches to literary criticism. With thought-provoking analysis of several works in a wide variety of genres, each volume helps readers develop tools to analyze literary works using a particular critical lens. This volume examines the psychological approach to literary criticism.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
On Psychological Approaches to Literature: Looking at Books with the Mind's Eye.
Critical Contexts.
1: Crews Missiles: Attacks and Counterattacks Concerning Freudian Literary Criticism.
2: Psychological Approaches to Literature: A Review of Select Scholarship.
3: A Family Systems Theory Reading of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift.
4: Freud and Poe: A Dialogue.
Critical Readings.
5: Literary Prehistory: The Origins and Psychology of Storytelling.
6: “Is This Her Fault or Mine?”: Hysteria, Misogyny, and Voice in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.
7: Trauma in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
8: John Donne, Neuroscience, and the Experience of Empathy.
9: Poe's Ideal of Love and the Broken World: Crowd Psychology in Some Tales and Poems.
10: Death and Freud in the Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
11: Grasping The Great Gatsby: A Cognitive Approach.
12: Hemingway's Suicides: A Psychobiographical Approach to Literature.
13: “Written in his face”: Ambivalence and Mirroring in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
14: “One Destroyed Being”: A Post-Jungian Appraisal of Darth Vader.
15: The Hero's Quest in the Harry Potter Books and Films.
16: Driving Each Other Crazy: Existential Psychology in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia.
Resources.
Psychological Pluralism: A Variety of Possible Psychological Approaches to Literature and Film.
Chronology.
Additional Works on Psychological Approaches to Literature.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Glossary.
Index.
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