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Reading the family dance : family systems therapy and literary study / edited by John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families in literature.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Systemic therapy (Family therapy).
- Physical Description:
- 333 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- Family systems therapy and literary study: an introduction
- The self: family systems therapy and the quest for identity ; Lucy Honeychurch's rage for selfhood: family systems therapy, ethics, and E.M. Forster's A room with a view / Kenneth Womack
- The enigmatic Jane Eyre: a differentation story without family in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre / Rosemary D. Babcock
- "Even now China wraps double binds around my feet": family communication in the woman warrior and Dim Sum / Gary Storhoff
- Exploring the matrix of identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Lee Ann De Reus
- The family: family systems therapy and the discourse of community ; Family dynamics and property acquisitions in Clarissa / Joan I. Schwarz
- Circular ties: a family systems reading of A.S. Byatt's The game / Steven Snyder
- Family systems therapy and narrative in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Jerome Bump
- Forging a family discourse in Marilene Felinto's The women of Tijucopapo, or, Unraveling the intricacies of miscommunication / Sara E. Cooper
- Family games and imbroglio in Hamlet / John V. Knapp
- The world: reading family systems in extremis ; Crusading for the family: Kurt Vonnegut's ethics of familial community / Todd F. Davis
- Hollywood exiles: Nathanael West's The day of the locust and family systems therapy / James M. Decker
- Are happy families all alike?: the strange case of Dr. Petruchio and Ms. Katherine / Marco Malaspina
- Transgenerational subsystems in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction / Denis Jonnes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 087413823X
- OCLC:
- 50920726
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