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Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology
Martin S. Lindauer
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 7] 2009
► pp. v–viii

Table of contents

List of tablesix

Preface

Part 1. Introduction

1. An orientation

2. Similarities and differences across the psychology of art

3. Competing psychological approaches to the arts: Clinical and scientific

4. The status of the scientific psychology of art

Part 2. The psychology of literature: An overview

5. The psychology of literature: Comparisons with other psychologies of art

6. A scientific psychology of literary content: Obstacles and steps towards a solution

Part 3. The psychological relevance of brief literary forms

7. Poetry, autobiographies, and titles: Their contribution to cognition, creativity, and physiognomic perception

8. Literary names, indices, and clichés: Their contribution to physiognomic perception, emotions, and thinking

9. Quotations: Their psychological usefulness

Part 4. The psychological content of quotations: Person perception and attitudes to aging

10. Person perception and the psychological attributes of the body

11. A study of quotations on the psychological implications of the body

12. Prologue: Aging and the arts

13. Aging’s memorable lines: A study of quotations about growing old

14. The preoccupations of aging: The subject matter of quotations

15. Evaluations of aging in quotations

Part 5. Conclusion

16. Implications of a content-oriented psychology of literature

Notes

References cited

Index

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