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Imagined Human Beings - A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature

English · Paperback / Softback

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One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people.

When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.


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Bernard Jay Paris

Summary

Explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behaviour of these characters as we would the behaviour of real people

Product details

Authors Louise Davidson, Bernard J. Paris, Bernard Jay Paris
Publisher New York University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.10.1997
 
EAN 9780814766569
ISBN 978-0-8147-6656-9
No. of pages 304
Dimensions 150 mm x 224 mm x 19 mm
Weight 417 g
Series Literature & Psychoanalysis
Literature & Psychoanalysis
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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