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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis
About this book
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzingthe psychoanalytic dimensions of human creativity in contemporary society. Essays provide critical perspectives on selected canonical authors, such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin It also offers analysis of contemporary literature of social, sexual and political turmoil, as well as newer forms such as film, graphic narrative, and autofiction. Divided into five sections, each offering the reader different subject areas to explore, this volume shows how psychoanalytic approaches to literature can provide valuable methods of interpretation. It will be a key resource for students, teachers and researchers in the field of literature and psychoanalysis as well as literary theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction Reading to Recover: Literature and Psychoanalysis
- Part I In History
- Part II In Society
- Part III In Sight
- Part IV In Theory
- Further Reading
- Index