Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature

Name: Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature
Brand: New York University Press
SKU: 9780814766569
Price: 3568.00 INR
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by Bernard Jay Paris

New York University Press · 1997

Bernard J. Paris uses Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to read the inner conflicts of famous literary characters as if they were real people. Suits students of literature and psychology.

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About this book

Literature gives us characters who feel like real people, with motives and emotions we recognise. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris asks what those characters' inner conflicts reveal, reading some of literature's best-known figures with the help of Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories.

Paris treats fictional behaviour as he would treat the behaviour of actual people. He examines how realistically drawn characters respond when they are under pressure, and what that response shows about the conflicts that drive them.

Students and teachers of literature, and readers interested in the connection between psychology and character, are the natural audience for the book.

Edition note: published by New York University Press. ISBN-13: 9780814766569.