Imagined Human Beings : : A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature / / Bernard Jay Paris.

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&...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1997]
©1997
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Series:Literature and Psychoanalysis ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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