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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jeremy Tambling
SeriesBloomsbury Handbooks
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:560
Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 189
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
Literary theory
Philosophy of the mind
ISBN/Barcode 9781350184152
ClassificationsDewey:809.93353
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 9 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 6 April 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.

Author Biography

Jeremy Tambling was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and then Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester. He is now part-time Professor at the Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Poland, and author of over twenty books, plus articles.