UID:
kobvindex_HPB913695243
Format:
1 online resource (306 pages)
ISBN:
9780814767917
,
0814767915
Content:
One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan appro.
Note:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; PART I Introduction; 1 Applications of a Horneyan Approach; 2 Horney's Mature Theory; PART II Characters and Relationships; 3 A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler; 4 The End of the Road; 5 The Clerk's Tale -- 6 The Merchant of Venice; 7 Antigone; PART III Character, Plot, Rhetoric, and Narrative Technique; 8 Great Expectations; 9 Jane Eyre; 10 The Mayor of Casterbridge; 11 Madame Bovary; 12 The Awakening; 13 Wuthering Heights; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Paris, Bernard Jay. Imagined Human Beings : A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780814766569
Language:
English
