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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"psychoanalytic criticism"”.
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A Freudian <i>Dream</i>: Interpretations of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> by Psychoanalysts and Psychoanalytically Informed Literary Critics
… and by literary critics influenced by psychoanalytic theory. The primary material is principally taken from the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing database, and includes 37 papers or chapters by psychoanalysts and some by psychoanalytically informed literary critics, addressing …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
… theoretical approaches such as new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, and deconstruction, as well as feminist criticism. It contextualizes Collins's novels and his "feminist" concerns within the framework of other contemporary feminist ideas and the critical responses his works received.
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The work of death in the Americas
… for imagining a national legacy. Current criticism emphasizes the sexual coupling and generative romantic structure of the marriage plot around which many of these novels circulate. This criticism emphasizes the somatic nature of the genre, the corporeal language of romance that is read in …
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The Loss Of Identity In Emily Bronte‘S Wuthering Heights and K. S. Maniam‘S The Return in relation to communication issues: A critical analysis
… study, the researcher adopted the postcolonial criticism (Homi Bhabha‘s Ambivalence and Edward Said‘s Orientalism) and the psychoanalytic criticism (Freud‘s Defense Mechanisms and Kristeva‘s Abjection). This study analysed two postcolonial novels (Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights and K.S …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… how Native comedy operates as a rhetorical and psychoanalytic critique of settler colonialism. Focusing on the television series Reservation Dogs, I argue that gallows humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native rhetorical practice …
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A Sensory Tour of Cape Cod: Thoreau's Transcendental Journey to Spiritual Renewal
… the study proffers new support for previous psychoanalytical interpretations of Thoreau and his writings, reveals heretofore unrecognized historical inaccuracies in his account of the shipwreck that frames the book's opening, and provides the first detailed consideration of the linguistic …
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Beneath the penumbral glow: John Banville and the cinema
This study focuses on the cinematic aspects of John Banville’s work, aiming to answer how the overt cinematic interest in the cinema in his later work is to be understood in the context of his writing career as a whole. His writing plays on the difficulties inherent in the relationship between …