Title Reading the family dance : family systems therapy and literary study / edited by John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack

Published Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [2003] ©2003

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Description 333 pages ; 24 cm Contents Family systems therapy and literary study : an introduction / John V. Knapp -- 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 differentation story without family in Charlotte Brontë'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 -- 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 -- Family systems therapy and narrative in 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 -- The world : reading family systems 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 -- Transgenerational subsystems in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction / Denis Jonnes Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages 305-324) and index Subject Women and literature -- English-speaking countries. Families in literature. Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Systemic therapy (Family therapy) Author Knapp, John V., 1940- Womack, Kenneth. LC no. 2002152984 ISBN 087413823X alkaline paper

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