Literature & Psychology

9 Blogs I’ve Discovered Through Literature & Psychology

Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / October 25, 2015

Because I’m particularly interested in the intersection between literature and psychology, I curate Literature & Psychology, which I update regularly. Through this curation I’ve discovered a number of interesting blogs and web sites. Classroom as Microcosm Siobhan Curious describes herself as “a teacher, student and person.” She teaches college English and writes fiction (both novels […]

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“The Headless Hawk,” Truman Capote

Fiction, Literature & Psychology, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / August 18, 2015 / gothic literature, Southern gothic, The World Within, Truman Capote

Capote, Truman. “The Headless Hawk” (1945) In The World Within: Fiction Illuminating Neuroses of Our Time Edited by Mary Louise Aswell Notes and Introduction by Frederic Wertham, M.D. New York: Whittlesey House, 1947 Related Posts: “The World Within”: Introduction “Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” Conrad Aiken “The Door,” E.B. White “I Am Lazarus,” Anna Kavan This

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“Go Set a Watchman”: A Lesson in Writing & Reading Fiction

Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literature & Psychology, Reading, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / August 4, 2015 / Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Related Posts: Review: “Go Set a Watchman” Compendium on “Go Set a Watchman” More on Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman New York: HarperCollins, 2015 ISBN 978–0–06–240985–0 Consensus is that Go Set a Watchman is the manuscript that Harper Lee originally submitted to publisher J. B. Lippincott Company in

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Literary Characters Disturbing the Universe

Book Recommendations, Fiction, List, Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / June 24, 2015 / "Blue Diary", "Broken for You", "One Thousand White Women", "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves", Alice Hoffman, Harper Lee, Jim Fergus, Karen Joy Fowler, Stephanie Kallos, To Kill a Mockingbird

Literary Characters Disturbing the Universe In his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot wrote “Do I dare/disturb the universe?” Erin Haley looks at novels that present characters who dare to ask the same question as Prufrock. The main theme is independence, she says. Such characters “challenge the status quo.” Because challenging

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Psychological Text Analysis

1 Comment / Author News, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature & Psychology, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 12, 2015 / digital humanities, James Pennebaker, John Fletcher, Lewis Theobold, psychological text analysis, Ryan Boyd, Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Plays Reveal His Psychological Signature A hot trend in literary criticism is the use of computers to analyze text, a field known as digital humanities. Recently Ryan Boyd, a graduate researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, and James Pennebaker, the Liberal Arts Regents Centennial Professor of Psychology at the university, conducted one

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Review: “Winesburg, Ohio” by Sherwood Anderson

Fiction, Life Stories in Literature, Literary History, Literature & Psychology, Review, The Classics Club / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 18, 2015 / "Winesburg Ohio", naturalism, Sherwood Anderson

Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio Original publication date: 1919 Rpt. New York: Random House, 1947 Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece, Winesburg, Ohio, is a collection of 23 interrelated sketches—Anderson calls them “tales”—that portray life in a Midwestern town in the early years of the twentieth century. The unifying thread throughout is the coming-of-age story of George Willard, an

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Reading in Flow

Fiction, Literature & Psychology, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 10, 2015 / Csikszentmihalyi, featured post, flow, literature, psychology, reading

Related Posts: Flow Getting Lost in a Good Book: Scientific Research on Reading Flow and the Reading Process If you’ve ever had the experience of getting lost in a good book, you’ve experienced flow. Csikszentmihalyi’s general characteristics of flow describe this experience. The key to flow is complete absorption in an activity. For readers, the

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What Your Favorite Books Tell You About Your Writing

Life Stories in Literature, Literature & Psychology, Personal, Story, Writing / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 10, 2015 / featured, Frank McCourt, Harper Lee, Louise M. Rosenblatt, Mary Catherine Bateson, Mary Karr, Stephanie Kallos, Sue Monk Kidd, To Kill a Mockingbird

My major life activities are reading (usually fiction) and writing (always nonfiction). So I’m delighted when I come across something that combines the two: something like Marcy McKay’s writing challenge What Your Favorite Books Tell You About Your Writing. Marcy runs The Write Practice, a web site and newsletter aimed at fiction writers, but even

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Review: “The Girl on the Train,” Paula Hawkins

Fiction, Literature & Psychology, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / January 30, 2015

Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train New York: Penguin Group, 2015 ISBN 978–1–59463–366–9 Rachel rides the same train every day on her commute to and from London, right past the street where she and her husband used to live. She’s still reeling with despair over the failure of her marriage two years earlier. Looking

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Getting Lost in a Good Book

Literature & Psychology, Reading / By Mary Daniels Brown / January 10, 2015

Getting Lost in a Good Book: Scientific Research on Reading Have you ever gotten so absorbed in reading a novel that you lost track of time and of what was happening around you—-even, in fact, that there was a world around you outside of the one you were reading about? Most serious readers have had

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