Psychoanalytic criticism in literature explores the psychological motivations of characters and authors, often focusing on unconscious desires and conflicts. It helps readers understand the deeper meanings in texts by analyzing characters' behaviors, symbols, and themes through a psychological lens. This approach can reveal hidden layers of meaning and provide insight into the complexities of human nature portrayed in literature.
Julia Hoydis has written: '\\' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Indic literature (English), Literature and history, History and criticism '\\' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Indic literature (English), Literature and history, History and criticism
Lenemaja Friedman has written: 'Mary Stewart' -- subject(s): Adaptations, Arthurian romances, Criticism and interpretation, History, History and criticism, In literature, Kings and rulers in literature, Medievalism, Middle Ages in literature, Women and literature 'Shirley Jackson' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, American Horror tales, Women and literature, History 'Enid Bagnold' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, History, Women and literature 'Mary Stewart' -- subject(s): Adaptations, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Medievalism, Arthurian romances, Women and literature, Kings and rulers in literature, In literature, Middle Ages in literature, History
J. R. Maze has written: 'Albert Camus' -- subject(s): Subconsciousness in literature, Criticism and interpretation 'Albert Camus' -- subject(s): Subconsciousness in literature, Criticism and interpretation 'Albert Camus' -- subject(s): Subconsciousness in literature, Criticism and interpretation
Stanley Sultan has written: 'Eliot, Joyce, and company' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, English literature, History and criticism, Modernism (Literature) 'Yeats at his last' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, In literature, Intellectual life
Psychoanalytic criticism was created in the early 20th century by Sigmund Freud, a pioneering psychologist. It explores literature, art, and culture through the lens of Freud's theories of the unconscious, dream symbolism, and psychosexual development.
Ginette Michaud has written: 'Ferron post-scriptum' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation 'Joyce' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Literature) 'Tenir au secret' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Secrecy in literature
Literary criticism refers to the analysis, evaluation, or interpretation or description of literary works.
Claude Julien Rawson has written: 'Henry Fielding and the Augustan ideal under stress: \\' -- subject(s): Classicism, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, History, History and criticism, Influence, Roman influences 'Henry Fielding' -- subject(s): Biography, Criticism and interpretation, English Authors 'Henry Fielding and the Augustan ideal under stress' -- subject(s): Classicism, Criticism and interpretation, English literature, History, History and criticism, Influence, Roman influences 'Order from confusion sprung' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, English literature, History and criticism, Order (Philosophy) in literature 'Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone' -- subject(s): English literature, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism
Jean H. Hagstrum has written: 'Samuel Johnson's literary criticism' -- subject(s): Criticism, Criticism and interpretation, English philology, History, History and criticism, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Knowledge, Literature, Theory 'The romantic body' -- subject(s): Body, Human, in literature, Criticism and interpretation, English poetry, History and criticism, Love in literature, Romanticism, Sex in literature 'William Blake, poet and painter' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation
Fred Erisman has written: 'Tony Hillerman' -- subject(s): In literature, Criticism and interpretation 'Frederic Remington' -- subject(s): Western stories, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Frontier and pioneer life in literature, West (U.S.) in literature
Sue Asbee has written: 'Flann O'Brien' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, In literature 'Virginia Woolf' -- subject(s): Biography, Criticism and interpretation, English Authors, English Novelists, English literature, History and criticism, Juvenile literature
K. I. Madhusudana Rao has written: 'Contrary awareness' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, In literature 'The complex fate' -- subject(s): Criticism and interpretation, Culture conflict in literature, Human beings in literature, In literature