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Literature and the Relational Self

English · Paperback / Softback

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"Literature and the Relational Self is a tribute to the rich complexity of human nature?as poets, novelists, and relational models of contemporary psychoanalysis mutually attest."

?Psychoanalytic Psychologist

While psychoanalytic relational perspectives have had a major impact on the clinical world, their value for the field of literary study has yet to be fully recognized. This important book offers a broad overview of relational concepts and theories, and it examines their implications for understanding literary and aesthetic experience as it reviews feminist applications of relational-model theories, and considers D. W. Winnicott's influential ideas about creativity and symbolic play.

The eight incisive essays in this volume apply these concepts to a close reading of various nineteenth and twentieth-century literary texts: an essay on Wordsworth, for instance, explores the poet's writing on the imagination in light of Winnicott's ideas about transitional phenomena, while an essay on Woolf and Lawrence compares identity issues in their work from the perspective of feminist object relations theories.

The cultural influences that have led to the development of the relational paradigm in the sciences at this particular historical moment have also affected contemporary art and literature. Essays on John Updike, Toni Morrison, Ann Beattie, and Alice Hoffman examine self-other relational dynamics in their texts that reflect larger cultural patterns characteristic of our time. The author reviews feminist applications of relational-model theories and applies these models to works by William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and others.


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Barbara Ann Schapiro is Associate Professor of English at Rhode Island College. She is the author of The Romantic Mother: Narcissistic Patterns in Romantic Poetry and coeditor with Lynne Layton of Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self.

Product details

Authors History Force, Barbara Ann Schapiro
Publisher New York University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.07.1995
 
EAN 9780814780220
ISBN 978-0-8147-8022-0
No. of pages 220
Dimensions 147 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
Weight 295 g
Series Literature & Psychoanalysis
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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