Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary StudyJohn V. Knapp, Kenneth Womack University of Delaware Press, 2003 - 333 Seiten The development in recent years of the intersections between the family and literary study continues to emerge as one of the most productive and illuminating arenas of contemporary critique. In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global. As the intellectual foundation for the forms of therapy practiced by the majority of contemporary American and European psychotherapists, the study of family systems theory and its intersections with literary works affords readers with an illuminating glimpse into the terminology and processes involved in this dynamic form of critique. Perhaps most significantly, family systems therapy allows critics to consider the distinctly social interactions that characterise our pathways to interpersonal development and selfhood. John V. Knapp is Professor of English, with a joint appointment in modern literature and in teacher education, at Northern Illinois University. Kenneth Womack is Assist |
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Even Now China Wraps Double Binds around My Feet Family Communication in The Woman Warrior and Dim Sum | 71 |
Exploring the Matrix of Identity in Barbara Kingsolvers Animal Dreams | 93 |
The Family Family Systems Therapy and the Discourse of Community | 109 |
Family Dynamics and Property Acquisitions in Clarissa | 111 |
Circular Ties A Family Systems Reading of A S Byatts The Game | 135 |
Family Systems Therapy and Narrative in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye | 151 |
The World Reading Family Systems Therapy in extremis | 219 |
Crusading for the Family Kurt Vonneguts Ethics of Familial Community | 221 |
Hollywood Exiles Nathanael Wests The Day of the Locust and Family Systems Therapy | 236 |
Are Happy Families All Alike? The Strange Case of Dr Petruchio and Ms Katherine | 254 |
Transgenerational Subsystems in Flannery OConnors Short Fiction | 276 |
General Bibliography | 305 |
Notes on Contributors | 325 |
Index | 329 |
Forging a Family Discourse in Marilene Felintos The Women of Tijucopapo Or Unraveling the Intricacies of Miscommunication | 171 |
Family Games and Imbroglio in Hamlet | 194 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adolescent adult American Baptista behavior Bianca Black Families Bluest Eye Brave Orchid Brontë Cassandra characters child Cholly Clarissa Claudius Codi Codi's communication critics cultural daughter death Dim Sum double bind dysfunctional emotional essay ethical extended family Family Dynamics Family Games family script family systems therapy Family Therapy family's father Faye feelings Felinto's fiction Flannery O'Connor Forster's Geraldine Geraldine's Gertrude Harlowe Homer human Ibid Identity Development identity formation individual interaction interpersonal James Jr Jane Eyre Jane's Julia Katherine Kegan King Hamlet Kingston Knapp Kurt Vonnegut literary live Lucy Lucy's marriage married Maxine's mimetic mother narrative narrator Nathanael West novel O'Connor's Palazzoli parents patterns Pecola Petruchio psychological readers reading relationship Rísia Rochester role Samuel Richardson says seems Selvini sense settlement law Shakespeare sibling sister social story Tam's tells theory tion Toni Morrison Uncle University Press Vonnegut Woman Warrior Women of Tijucopapo York
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Seite 200 - If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering ; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing : Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee,
Seite 32 - By far the most valuable things, which we know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may be roughly described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects.
Seite 85 - And I don't want to listen to any more of your stories; they have no logic. They scramble me up. You lie with stories. You won't tell me a story and then say, This is a true story,
Seite 270 - I know it is the sun that shines so bright. PETRUCHIO. Now by my mother's son, and that's myself, It shall be moon, or star, or what I list, Or ere I journey to your father's house.
Seite 55 - I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits : more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had become the inmates of my mind. I had given in allegiance to duty and order; I was quiet; I believed I was content: to the eyes of others, usually even to my own, I appeared a disciplined and subdued character.
Seite 64 - Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value - to press my lips to what I love - to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice.
Seite 128 - ... our marriages are made, just like other common bargains and sales, by the meer consideration of interest or gain, without any of love or esteem, of birth or of beauty itself, which ought to be the true ingredients of all happy compositions of this kind, and of all generous productions.
Seite 123 - And this low and familiar expression was often in his mouth, and uttered always with the self-complaisance which an imagined happy thought can be supposed to give the speaker: to wit, "that a man who has sons brings up chickens for his own table...
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