Critical approaches to literature. Psychological

Evans, Robert C., 1955- (editor.).

Summary: "This volume is deliberately diverse. It offers essays on novels, short stories, dramas, poems, and films. It presents a commentary on works from numerous places and periods of time, as well as numerous kinds of creative minds. . . [It ] . . . tries to suggest . . . the sheer variety of potential ways of thinking about literature and film from numerous different psychological perspectives including many whose possible bearings on the arts remain largely unexplored." --

Record details

ISBN: 9781682172728
ISBN: 1682172724
Physical Description: print
319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Dedication -- About this volume / Robert C. Evans -- On psychological approaches to literature: looking at books with the mind's eye / David Willbern -- Crews missiles: attacks 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 Strong -- 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.