The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: New, 12/16/2021
EAN 9781108477482, ISBN10: 1108477488

Hardcover, 300 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

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.

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.