Organizing relation : attachment theory and literary criticism /
Organizing Relation is an interdisciplinary study of attachment theory and literary criticism, exploring how the understanding of subjectivity and relationality in attachment theory impacts literary criticism's sense of human connection and presence. It includes an introduction to the field of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Organizing Relation is an interdisciplinary study of attachment theory and literary criticism, exploring how the understanding of subjectivity and relationality in attachment theory impacts literary criticism's sense of human connection and presence. It includes an introduction to the field of attachment theory and to allied work on sensorimotor and attachment-based trauma healing. It proposes how an attachment-based understanding of personhood, relationships and embodiment might shift a range of fundamental aspects of humanistic thought, especially its understanding of subjectivity's relation to the body. It then explores the proposed intersection of literary criticism and attachment theory through a set of readings from nineteenth-century American literature, showing how attachment theory's perspectives shift the appearance of dependency, individuality, race and relationship in the work of Harriet Wilson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis and Charles Chesnutt. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 198 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197805596 0197805590 |