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Literature and the Relational Self  
Author: Barbara Ann Schapiro
ISBN: 0814780229
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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From Book News, Inc.
In eight close readings of texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, provides a broad overview of relational concepts and theories of applying psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of literature in particular and aesthetics in general. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.




Literature and the Relational Self

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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. The author 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 relational paradigm, as a present-day development, is also particularly relevant to contemporary 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.

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Booknews

In eight close readings of texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, provides a broad overview of relational concepts and theories of applying psychoanalytic perspectives to the understanding of literature in particular and aesthetics in general. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

     



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