Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism

by John V. Knapp

Book Overview

This book uses a trio of contemporary psychological paradigms (family systems, subject/object differentiation and depression, and personality theory) to discuss six works of fiction. The authors of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761802568
• ISBN13: 9780761802563
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 316 Pages

Customer Reviews

Selections of published reviews

1. Norman Holland calls this book "impressive." Jan 31, 1997, PsyArt Net. 2. Paisley Livingston says that "this is a worthwhile and courageous book." *Style* 31.2 (Sp. 1997, p. 203). 3. Jerome Bump says that the book "presents thorough, convincing defenses of interdisciplinary literary scholarship." *Dionysos* 8.1 (Winter 1998, p.34).