Imagined Human Beings
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 psychoan...
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2024
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| description | 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 approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1360552025-07-18T09:46:43Z Imagined Human Beings Paris, Bernard Jay Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism 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 approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road. 2024-04-04T04:01:29Z 2024-04-04T04:01:29Z 2024-04-03T10:09:20Z 1997 book ONIX_20240403_9780814767917_48 OCN: 47010516 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89330 9780814767917 9780814766552 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136055 eng open access image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89330/1/9780814767917_WEB.pdf New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9780814767917.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9780814767917.001.0001 13ae9bf8-b4bf-47bb-be6d-71e5675ace48 9780814767917 9780814766552 NYU Press New York open access |
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