Critical approaches to literature. Psychological / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Series:

Critical approaches to literature.

Critical approaches to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 319 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

The book examines a representative body of British and American work, including poems, short fiction, drama, and film spanning across historical periods, from a psychological perspective to provide a foundational understanding of this approach and how it is applied.

Contents:

Critical contexts / Critical readings / Resources. On psychological approaches to literature: looking at books with the mind's eye / David Willbern Crews missiles: attacka and counterattacks concerning Freudian literary criticism / Robert C. Evans Psychological approaches to literature: a review of select scholarship / Robert C. Evans A family systems theory reading of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's gift / Allan Chavkin & Nancy Feyl Chavkin Freud and Poe: a dialogue / James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin Literary prehistory: the origins and psychology of storytelling / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama "Is this her fault or mine?": hysteria, misogyny, and voice in Shakespeare's Measure for measure /Laura B. Vogel Trauma in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Robert C. Evans John Donne, neuroscience, and the experience of empathy / David String Poe's ideal of love and the broken world: crowd psychology in some tales and poems / Jeffrey Folks Death and Freud in the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay / Jenna Lewis Grasping The great Gatsby: a cognitive approach / Nicolas Tredell Hemingway's suicides: a psychobiographical approach to literature / Jeffrey Berman "Written in his face": ambivalence and mirroring in Nineteen eighty-four / David Willbern "One destroyed being" a post-Jungian appraisal of Darth Vader / Steve Gronert Ellerhoff The hero's quest in the Harry Potter books and films / Christine Gerhold Zahorchak Driving each other crazy: existential psychology in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of suburbia / Susie Thomas.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Salem Press, viewed April 20, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682172735

1682172732

OCLC:

984692388