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Literature and the Relational Self /
The relational paradigm, as a present-day development, is also particularly relevant to contemporary literature. Essays on John Updike, Toni Morrison, Ann Beattie, and Alice Hoffman examine self-other relational dynamics in their texts that reflect larger cultural patterns characteristic of our time...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Jeffrey Berman
- 1. Introduction. The Relational Paradigm. Psychoanalytic Relational Concepts: An Overview. The Relational Model and Feminist Theory. Transitional Phenomena, Creativity, and Culture. Applications to Literary Criticism
- 2. Wordsworth and the Relational Model of Mind
- 3. The Rebirth of Catherine Earnshaw: Splitting and Reintegration of Self in Wuthering Heights
- 4. Gender, Self, and the Relational Matrix: D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
- 5. Boundaries and Betrayal in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
- 6. Updike, God, and Women: The Drama of the Gifted Child
- 7. Internal World and the Social Environment: Toni Morrison's Beloved
- 8. Ann Beattie and the Culture of Narcissism
- 9. Desire and Uses of Illusion: Alice Hoffman's Seventh Heaven
- 10. Afterword.