Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:42:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: "John V. Knapp" <tb0jvk1-AT-corn.cso.niu.edu>
Subject: FYI: "Table of Contents" for *Reading the Family Dance: Family    


Hello folks --

If I could be indulged for a moment, I would shamelessly like to plug my
and Ken Womack's latest book, *Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems
Therapy and Literary Studies* (U. of Delaware Press, June 2003) -- see
Table of Contents below.

Our goal was to offer an socially-focused alternative in psychological
literary criticism to the various INTRA-psychic models currently
dominating critical thinking these days.  We deliberatly sought out a
variety of literary texts for analysis, ranging from Shakespeare to the
18th C. novelist, Samuel Richardson, to the nineteenth C. writer,
Charlotte Bronte, to several modern British and American authors and even
a Brazilian feminist novelist.

In all, we offer 13 original essays (plus my Introduction) for the reader
interested in some newer ways of thinking about the relationships among
literature and psychology.

Cheers,

John



John V. Knapp

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		Henry Fielding,  *Tom Jones.*
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*Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study.*
	Edited by John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack
		University of Delaware Press, 2003.

Table of Contents
Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study: An Introduction
John V. Knapp

I. The Self: Family Systems Therapy and the Quest for Identity

Lucy Honeychurch's Rage for Selfhood: Family Systems Therapy, Ethics, and
E. M. Forster's A Room with a View
Kenneth Womack

The Enigmatic Jane Eyre: A Differentiation Story without Family in
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Rosemary D. Babcock

`Even Now China Wraps Double Binds around My Feet': Family Communication
in The Woman Warrior and Dim Sum
Gary Storhoff

Exploring the Matrix of Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams
Lee Ann De Reus

II. The Family: Family Systems Therapy and the Discourse of Community

Family Dynamics and Property Acquisitions in Clarissa
Joan I. Schwarz

Circular Ties: A Family Systems Reading of A. S. Byatt's The Game
Steven Snyder

The Family Dynamics of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Jerome Bump

Forging a Family Discourse in Marilene Felinto's The Women of Tijucopapo:
Or, Unraveling the Intricacies of Miscommunication
Sara E. Cooper

Family Games and Imbroglio in Hamlet
John V. Knapp

III. The World: Reading Family Systems Therapy in extremis

Crusading for the Family: Kurt Vonnegut's Ethics of Familial Community
Todd F. Davis

Hollywood Exiles: Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and Family
Systems Therapy
James M. Decker


Are Happy Families All Alike?: The Strange Case of Dr. Petruchio
and Ms. Katherine
Marco Malaspina

The Comforts of Home: Transgenerational Subsystems in Flannery
O'Connor's Short Fiction
Denis Jonnes

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