Self-Analysis in Literary Study Exploring Hidden Agendas [Hardcover]

What makes one reader look for issues of social conformity in Kafka'sMetamorphosiswhile another concentrates on the relationship between Gregor Samsa and his father?
Self-Analysis in Literary Studyinvestigates how the psychoanalytic self-analysis enables readers to gain a deeper understanding of literature as well as themselves.
In the past scholars have largely ignored self-analysis as an aid to approaching literature. The contributors inSelf-Analysis in Literary Studyboldly explore how the psyche affects intellectual intellectual discovery in the realm of applied psychoanalysis.
Jeffrey Berman confronts a close friend's suicide through Camus and his student's diaries, kept for an English class. Language, family history, and an attachment to Kafka are addressed in David Bleich's essay. Barbara Ann Schapiro writes of her attraction to Virginia Woolf during her emotional senior year of college. Other essayists include Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, Norman N. Holland, Bernard J. Paris, Steven Rosen, and Michael Steig.
Written for both scholars in the fields of psychology and literature and for a general audience intrigued by self- analysis as a tool for gaining insight,Self-Analysis in Literary Studyanswers traditional questions about literature and raises challenging new ones.