Essays consider the contributions of Freud to psychology and the study of literature, and examine the themes and influence of his writings

Freud, Collection of Critical Essays

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meisel, Perry

Psychology & Counseling

PRENTICE/HALL

What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this adventurous new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins Romanticism and the blues tradition by focusing on the preoccupation with boundaries that are common to both--the boundaries between freedom and irony, country and city, and cowboy and dandy. Meisel traces the emergence of rock and roll out of jazz and Romantic culture alike as he examines, in a series of juxtaposed chapters, rhythm and blues, Emerson and the cowboy, urban blues, the dandy and psychedelia, Willa Cather, Miles Davis, Virginia Woolf, and 1960s rock. In the process, Meisel shows how the presumable difference between high and mass or pop culture disappears when both turn out to have similar structures. He also reveals how canons emerge inevitably within all traditions rather than being imposed upon them from without.

The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed

Yale University Press

The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater

Reassesses the causes of literary modernism, and discusses Hardy, Lawrence, Arnold, Eliot, Joyce, and Conrad

The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850

British & Irish

Reassesses the causes of literary modernism, and discusses Hardy, Lawrence, Arnold, Eliot, Joyce, and Conrad

The literary freud

First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Literary Freud

Routledge

Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925

Strachey, James

Kendrick, Walter

Strachey, Alix

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The argument of this book is a simple one: that criticism after theory is a single movement of thought defined by synthesis and continuity rather than by conflict and change. The most influential figures in criticism since Saussure-Bakhtin, Derrida, and Foucault-are wholly consistent with Saussure's foundational Course in General Linguistics (1916) no matter the traditions of complaint that have followed in Saussure's wake from Bakhtin forward. These complaints vitiate-despite themselves and often hilariously so-the misconceptions that have made cottage industries out of quarrels with Saussurean semiology that are based on notions of Saussure that are incorrect. The materialist criticism dominant today is actually dependent upon on the legacy of a presumably formalist structuralism rather than a step beyond it. New Historicism, postcolonialism, gender studies, environmental criticism, archive studies, even shared and surface reading are, like deconstruction, the by-products of Saussure's structuralism, not its foils. Saussure's sign is sensory and concrete. Language and materiality are not distinct but one and the same-history, society, the psychological subject, even the environment are systems of signs, material archives read and reread by futures that produce the past after the fact. Without Saussure, contemporary criticism would have no identifiable or effective source. The book begins with chapters on Saussure and Derrida, Bakhtin and Shakespeare, and Freud and Foucault followed by chapters on Victorian and American fiction, D.H. Lawrence and modern poetry, Virginia Woolf and Melanie Klein, and the historicist tropology of psychoanalysis. It concludes with a coda in life writing on the author's epileptic disability.

Criticism After Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf (Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature)

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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