Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Vol. 7: Literary Criticism and Psychology (Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, V. 7)

The psychological problems within literary study are manifold. The most important for investigation include the writer himself as a psychologically complex person involved in the creative process, the work of art itself as a psychological stimulus, and the response to the work by the audience. Each area generates its own psychological questions. The greatest error on the part of the literary critic would be to reduce a work s literary aspects to psychological means and ends, to psychologize it totally and thus to abandon literary criticism as an autonomous discipline. A psychologist may do this legitimately, but a literary critic cannot although this by no means precludes the critic s bringing a knowledge of psychology to bear on his own work. The contributors to this book consist of critics, psychologists, and some who are both."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271012188
• ISBN13: 9780271012186
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"