{"product_id":"imagined-human-beings-9780814766552","title":"Imagined Human Beings","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In \u003cb\u003eImagined Human Beings\u003c\/b\u003e, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people.\u003cbr\u003e When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including \u003ci\u003eAntigone, \u003c\/i\u003e \"The Clerk's Tale,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Road.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bernard Jay Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274205802747,"sku":"9780814766552","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b5b5c6cc-3933-4d2a-ab60-37a0812d8b09.jpg?v=1771034223","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/imagined-human-beings-9780814766552","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}