Title: Critical approaches to literature.
Authors: Evans, Robert C., 1955-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Psychology in literature.; Literature History and criticism Psychological aspects.; Literature Psychological aspects; Psychology in literature.
Contents: Dedication -- About this volume / Robert C. Evans -- On psychological approaches to literature: looking at books with the mind's eye / David Willbern -- Crews missiles: attacks and counterattacks concerning Freudian literary criticism / Robert C. Evans -- Psychological approaches to literature: a review of select scholarship / Robert C. Evans -- A family systems theory reading of Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift / Allan Chavkin & Nancy Feyl Chavkin -- Freud and Poe: a dialogue / James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin -- Literary prehistory: the origins and psychology of storytelling / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- "Is this her fault or mine?" : hysteria, misogyny, and voice in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure / Laura B. Vogel -- Trauma in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Robert C. Evans -- John Donne, neuroscience, and the experience of empathy / David Strong -- Poe's ideal of love and the broken world: crowd psychology in some tales and poems / Jeffrey Folks -- Death and Freud in the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay / Jenna Lewis -- Grasping The Great Gatsby: a cognitive approach / Nicolas Tredell -- Hemingway's suicides: a psychobiographical approach to literature / Jeffrey Berman -- "Written in his face" : ambivalence and mirroring in Nineteen Eighty-Four / David Willbern -- "One destroyed being" : a post-Jungian appraisal of Darth Vader / Steve Gronert Ellerhoff -- The hero's quest in the Harry Potter books and films / Christine Gerhold Zahorchak -- Driving each other crazy: existential psychology in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia / Susie Thomas.