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In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers - William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison - to examine the father's function as a "border figure." Although the father has most commonly been interpreted as the figure who introduces opposition and exclusion to the child, Fowler finds in these literary depictions fathers who instead...

"A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, Goethe's literary rendering of interiorityhas not been the subject of detailed analysis in itself. Goethe's Allegories of Identity examines how Goethe...

"The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States witnessed an increasing prevalence of the mutilated human body, evidenced in factory statistics that document the toll machines and industry took on human corporeal form and in narratives recounting medical cases in surgical manuals. Such anatomies also are widely featured in American literary texts of the same era as authors, in an attempt to assuage the horror associated with disintegrating...

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the "Colored American Magazine", Pauline Hopkins (1859-1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. "The Motherless Child", the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fictions, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis...

"The Writer Uprooted is the first book to examine the emergence of a new generation of Jewish immigrant authors in America, most of whom grew up in formerly communist countries. In essays that are both personal and scholarly, the contributors to this collection chronicle and clarify issues of personal and cultural dislocation and loss, but also affirm the possibilities of reorientation and renewal. Writers, poets, translators, and critics describe...