Psychological Literary Criticism Power Point Presentation (these are the slides I incorporated into tonight's lecture): http://www.mccd.edu/faculty/pirov/Engl1B/Psychological_files/frame.htm
Psychological Approach (Freudian) AND Mythological and Archetypal Approach to Literature (scroll down on this link) (great link; easy to understand): http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:8W6cGadguK0J:www.whrhs.org/faculty_web/rbumiller/documents/Literary_Criticism_and_Theory.doc+psychological+criticism+literature&cd=23&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
Psychological Criticism (brief overview; easy to understand): http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/psycho.crit.html
Psychological Criticism (very thorough; good chart and breakdown; easy to understand): http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:oU9DLB_ksHoJ:www.westga.edu/~pburgey/Literary%2520Criticism/Psychological%2520Criticism.doc+psychological+criticism+literature&cd=26&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: A Psychological Reading (rather intense, but take what you can and leave the rest): http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/virtualit/fiction/criticaldefine/psychessay.pdf
Psychological criticism: An approach to literature that draws upon psychoanalytic theories, especially those of Sigmund Freud or Jacques Lacan to understand more fully the text, the writer, and the reader. The basis of this approach is the idea of the existence of a human unconscious: those impulses, desires, and feelings about which a person is unaware but which influence emotions and behavior. Critics use psychological approaches to explore the motivations of characters and the symbolic meanings of events, while biographers speculate about a writer's own motivations. For model essays and exercises on psychological criticism, go to the VirtuaLit Interactive Fiction Tutorial. conscious or unconscious, in a literary work. Psychological approaches are also used to describe and analyze the reader's personal responses to a text. http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_p.html
Psychological Criticism and “Jane Eyre” (rather intense, but some good stuff, even if you are not familiar with "Jane Eyre"): http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~rlbeebe/what_is_psychoanalytic_criticism.pdf
STEP TWO: WRITE ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CRITICISM: Click on the following link, scroll down to the bottom of the web page, and "Ask yourself the following questions" and prepare answers for (1) Young Goodman Brown in "Young Goodman Brown," and (2) Sammy in "A&P"; http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:oU9DLB_ksHoJ:www.westga.edu/~pburgey/Literary%2520Criticism/Psychological%2520Criticism.doc+psychological+criticism+literature&cd=26&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safai
You may type or handwrite your answers, but be sure you answer all the questions. You will answer the questions once for Young Goodman Brown and once for Sammy.
If you have any questions regarding the assignment, send me an e-mail at english102wcc@gmail.com, and I will get back to you as quickly as possible.
Thank you professor Robert for your compassion and understanding. I hope you will throw more light on the way to approach the essay when we meet in class. You definately made my day after reading the changes you made to the essay and response papers.
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Your welcome, Andrew. Despite the cruel rumors that are circulating in the class about me, the truth is that I DO have heart for the students and want everyone to be successful with the assignments. What saddens me is that I don't feel I've been able to get that across to a large percentage of the class.
ReplyDeleteThank you professor! I finally got a chance to go onto this website since last weeks class Now I feel as though I have such a relief off my shoulders. I really appreciate the changes made.
ReplyDeleteIf the weather permits, I will see you tomorrow night.
You're welcome, Valentina! :)
ReplyDeletethank you prof!!!! -Robert Letizia
ReplyDeleteHI Professor, should we hand in this assignment to you tomorrow in class? Please advise. Thank you. Victor Wilson
ReplyDeleteHi, Victor, yes -- the information is also on the Snow Day Quandary link at the top of the blog: http://english102wcc02.blogspot.com/2010/02/snow-day-quandary-psychological.html
ReplyDeleteSee you tomorrow!