Съдържание:
  • pt. 1.
  • Psychoanalytic self psychology:
  • Kohut's psychology of the self, empathy, and the reading process
  • pt. 2.
  • Tragic man:
  • Narcissistic vulnerability and rage in Dostoevsky's Notes from underground
  • Insect transformation as a narcissistic metaphor in Kafka's Metamorphosis
  • Empathy and self-validation in Bellow's Seize the day
  • Storytelling as attempted self-rescue in Conrad's "Secret sharer" and "Heart of darkness"
  • Defensive aestheticism and self-dissolution : the demise of the artist in Mann's Death in Venice
  • pt. 3.
  • Tragic woman:
  • The evasion of narcissistic anxieties in Lessing's Summer before the dark
  • Self-dispersal and self-assemblage : the artistic reconstitution of the broken self in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
  • Comic storytelling as escape and narcissistic self-expression in Atwood's Lady oracle
  • In conclusion:
  • Empathic reading and the critic/reader.