| Cognition and Image Formation in Literature Contributor(s): Urban, Bernd (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3820463852 ISBN-13: 9783820463859 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1979 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Literary Criticism | European - German - Psychology |
| Dewey: 808 |
| Physical Information: 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The credibility of the traditional psychoanalytic method of interpreting literature is lacking both within the field of literary and of psychoanalytic studies. In conjunction with a discussion of the untenable hypotheses and analogies that have formed the basis of traditional psychoanalytic involvement with literature, this work evaluates the psychoanalytic theory and conceptualizations that are relevant to the study of literature. Its premise is that the literary symbol functions in a reader's cognitive-affective responses to a text, which constitutes a psychological synthesis of text and reader identities. |
