PEP | Article - Metapsychological Literary Criticism—Theory and Practice: Essays in Honor of Leonard Falk Manheim. Melvin Goldstein (Ed.). Hartford, Conn.: University of Hartford, 1973. xxi + 186 pp.

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Abstract

This valuable Festschrift is the 1973 volume of Hartford Studies in Literature, a journal of interdisciplinary criticism which has always been dedicated to psychoanalytically oriented literary criticism. It is divided into two sections. The first, “Theory,” includes Norman N. Holland's statement of his current views on psychoanalytic literary criticism, Melvin D. Faber's article connecting Western tragedy to early object relations, Robert Rogers' psychoanalytic analysis of metaphor, in particular rose imagery, William J. Wasserstrom's simultaneous attack on George P. Elliot's commendation of censorship and tribute to Leonard Manheim's lifelong encouragement of unfettered inquiry, and Richard W. Noland's attempt to construct a model for nonreductive psychoanalytic literary