Literature & Psychology

A University Module on Victorian Literature and Psychology

Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 7, 2014

In today’s curation for Literature & Psychology I’ve come across this article: Escaping ‘Horrible Sanity’: Teaching Victorian Literature and Psychology Here Serena Trowbridge, Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University in the U.K., introduces the module she teaches on Victorian literature and psychology. The rest of the article, written by one of Trowbridge’s students, describes […]

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Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey

Literary Criticism, Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / March 1, 2014

Have you noticed how similar are the stories of Luke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins, and Harry Potter? All three of these ordinary fellows set out on a long journey, fraught with danger, to undertake a task with a little help from their friends. When Joseph Campbell examined the mythologies of the world’s major civilizations, he

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Introducing Literature & Psychology

Literature & Psychology / By Mary Daniels Brown / February 28, 2014

Literature & Psychology is a collection of interdisciplinary news items that I aggregate daily (well, almost daily) through ScoopIt. Literature & Psychology is also a new category of blog post here. Of course, there’s a story behind it. About 35 years ago I completed the coursework, though not the dissertation, for a doctorate in

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“The Storytelling Animal” by Jonathan Gottschall

Literature & Psychology, Nonfiction, Review, Story / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 30, 2012

Gottschall, Jonathan. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012ISBN 978-0-547-39140-3 Recommended “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories,” declares Jonathan Gottschall in the preface to his recent book The Storytelling Animal. Gottschall, a member

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“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox” by Maggie O’Farrell

Audiobooks, Fiction, Life Stories in Literature, Literature & Psychology, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / May 1, 2008

O’Farrell, Maggie. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox New York: Harcourt, 2006 ISBN 978-0-15-101411-8 Blackstone Audiobooks, narrated by Anne Flosnik Recommended This novel is about family stories–in this case, the truths that don’t get told and the lies that spring up to fill the void–and how those stories reverberate through generations. Iris Lockhart

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“The Knitting Circle” by Ann Hood

Fiction, Life Stories in Literature, Literature & Psychology, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / December 15, 2007

Hood, Ann. The Knitting Circle New York: Norton, 2007 ISBN 0-393-05901-4 Blackstone Audiobooks, narrated by Hillary Huber Highly recommended This novel is all about perspective, and about the healing power of telling our stories. When Mary Baxter’s five-year-old daughter dies suddenly of meningitis, Mary finds herself unable to read, write, go to work, or do

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“The Reader, the Text, the Poem” by Louise M. Rosenblatt

Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature & Psychology, Nonfiction, Reading, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / June 25, 2000

Rosenblatt, Louise M. The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work Carbondale, Ill., 1978Hardcover, 196 pagesISBN 0-8093-0883-5 Highly Recommended Rosenblatt is one of the proponents of the reader-response theory of literary criticism, a concept that emerged in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s as a reaction to New Criticism, which treated

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“Writing a Woman’s Life” by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literature & Psychology, Nonfiction, Review / By Mary Daniels Brown / April 1, 1999

Heilbrun, Carolyn G. Writing a Woman’s Life (1988) W.W. Norton & Company, 144 pages, $14.95 hardcover ISBN 0-393-02601-9 In the “Introduction,” feminist scholar Carolyn Heilbrun explains the topic of her book: There are four ways to write a woman’s life: the woman herself may tell it, in what she chooses to call an autobiography; she

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