Joseph Adamson

Modern Poetry and Deconstruction

Wounded Fiction

Hilary Clark

Explores the role of shame as an important affect in the complex psychodynamics of literary and philosophical works.

Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing

Scenes of Shame

Hilary Anne Clark

Offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd."

A Psychoanalytic Reading

Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye

Northrop Frye

Jean Wilson

his new edition in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye series brings The Secular Scripture together with thirty shorter pieces pertaining to literary theory and criticism from the last fifteen years of Frye s life."

The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991

This study offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd." Its concrete application of the rich analytic framework supplied by the work of such theorists as Heinz Kohut, Léon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, and Donald Nathanson implicitly challenges the contemporary reliance on an often abstract poststructuralist model of psychoanalysis. As a paradigmatic, coherent reading of the work of a single author, the book will appeal both to the many scholars interested in Melville's work and to anyone interested in psychoanalytic or psychological approaches to literature.

Joseph Adamson

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