Beyond literary theory : literature as a search for the meaning of human destiny / Eduard H. Strauch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strauch, Eduard Hugo, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 334 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2001]

Summary:

Beyond Literary Theory is not representative of any particular school of criticism. Its purpose is to demonstrate the scope and limits of critical theories based on logic, scientism, and psychoanalysis. Eduard H. Strauch allows readers to explore beyond literary theory to discover dimensions of human experience that define timeless literature.

Contents:

Part 1 The Historical Search for a Literary Aesthetic

Chapter 1 The Traditional Perspective: Literature as Beauty, Truth, Meaning and the Sublime 3

Part 2 The Scope and Limits of Rational Literary Theory

Chapter 2 The Obsolescent Critical Language of Today 45

Chapter 3 Genre: Kind, Form or Modulation? 55

Chapter 4 Image, Metaphor and Symbol 65

Chapter 5 The Neo-Aristotelian Analysis and the Limits of Logic 75

Chapter 6 European Criticism of Anglo-American Formalism 89

Part 3 Literary Theory as Human Science

Chapter 7 The Search for a Science of Literary Criticism 101

Part 4 The Psychological Interpretation of Literature

Chapter 8 Scope and Limits of the Freudian Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Literature 117

Chapter 9 C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology and its Implications for Interpreting Literature 133

Chapter 10 Paul Diel's Psychology of Motivation: Subconscious Fate Versus Supraconcsious Destiny 157

Part 5 The Mystical Dimension in Literature

Chapter 11 Dante's Vita Nuova as Riddle: A Medieval Meditation on the Numinous 183

Chapter 12 Four Dimensions of Signification in The Old Man and the Sea 193

A. Introduction to the Mystery of the Mandala 194

B. Santiago as Pilgrim 202

C. A Numerological Interpretation 208

D. The Novel as Testament 218

Chapter 13 The Mystical Dimension of J.P. Sartre's Nausea 227

Appendix A Mystical Poets, Philosophers and Authors 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.

ISBN:

0761819924

OCLC:

46314698