Search for dissertations about: "therapeutic narration"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words therapeutic narration.

2. 1. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction

   Author : Gwendolyn Haevens; David Associate Professor; Leerom Medovoi; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; early postwar American fiction; popular psychoanalysis; narrative therapy; narrative identity; narrative theory; representation of identity; script theory; therapeutic narration; fugitive selves; J.D. Salinger; Ralph Ellison; Sylvia Plath; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. READ MORE