The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Vera J. Camden (Engl

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Grounded in the complex history of literature and psychoanalysis, this volume introduces and explains the challenges of interpreting contemporary forms of literacy and media, and new mentalities through psychoanalytic methodologies.

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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 analyzing the 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.

Author Biography

Vera Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. She is also the Training and Supervising Analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst for the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education of the NYU Medical School. She is Associate Editor of American Imago and American Editor of the Journal of Graphic Narrative and Comics.

Table of Contents

Introduction Reading to Recover: Literature and Psychoanalysis Vera J. Camden; Part I. In History: 1. The varieties of psychoanalytic experience Madelon Sprengnether; 2. Recognitions: Shakespeare, Freud and the story of psychoanalysis Catherine Bates; 3.Rivalry and the favorite child in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly; 4. Encountering invisible presence: Virginia Woolf and Julia Duckworth Stephen Katherine Dalsimer; 5. Dislocating the reader: Slave motherhood and the disrupted temporality of trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved Jean Wyatt; Part II. In Society: 6. Remembering violence and possibilities of mourning: Psychoanalysis, partition literature and the writings of Sa'adat Hasan Manto Zehra Mehdi; 7. Latin American violence novels: Pain and the Gaze of narrative Beatriz L. Botero; 8. A man and his things: Bruce Chatwin's Utz Adele Tutter; 9. The uses of literature and psychoanalysis in contemporary reading groups Josie Billington; Part III. In Sight: 10. Frames of mind: Comics and psychoanalysis in the visual field Emmy Waldman; 11. Psychoanalysis and children's literature: Spotlighting the dialogue Ellen Handler Spitz; 12. Reflections on psychoanalysis and class: Andrea Arnold and Donald Winnicott Vicky Lebeau; Part IV. In Theory: 13. Why Literature? Why psychoanalysis? Jeremy Tambling; 14. Beyond the fragmented subject Lisa Ruddick; 15. The brokenness of being: Mourning in Queer theory and literature Mari Ruti; 16. Animal figures Carla Freccero.

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Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.

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Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.

Details ISBN1108732887 Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Companions to Literature Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1108732887 ISBN-13 9781108732888 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 300 Publication Date 2021-12-16 AU Release Date 2021-12-16 NZ Release Date 2021-12-16 UK Release Date 2021-12-16 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Author Vera J. Camden Edited by Vera J. Camden Alternative 9781108477482 DEWEY 801.92 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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