Psyche and the literary muses : the contribution of literary content to scientific psychology

Content: Cover --
Editorial page13
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Title page13
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Dedication --
Table of contents --
Preface --
Part 1. Introduction --
1. An orientation --
2. Similarities and differences across the psychology of art --
Unique aspects of the psychology of art --
The role of the arts in psychology --
3. Competing psychological approaches to the arts: Clinical and scientific --
An overview --
The clinical psychological approach to the arts --
Scientific psychology and the arts --
4. The status of the scientific psychology of art --
Part 2. The psychology of literature: An overview --
5. The psychology of literature: Comparisons with other psychologies of art --
Similarities between literature and the other arts --
The distinctive features of the psychology of literature --
6. A scientific psychology of literary content: Obstacles and steps towards a solution --
The many-sided objections to a scientific psychology of literary content --
Towards a solution: overcoming the obstacles to a scientific psychology of literary content --
Part 3. The psychological relevance of brief literary forms --
7. Poetry, autobiographies, and titles: Their contribution to cognition, creativity, and physiognomic perception --
Poetry, the recognition of style, and concept learning --
Artists on creativity --
Titles of abstract paintings and short stories: Their expressive properties --
8. Literary names, indices, and clich233
s: Their contribution to physiognomic perception, emotions, and thinking --
Names in literature: Their physiognomic properties --
Indices of literary content: Positive and negative emotions in literature --
The lessons learned --
9. Quotations: Their psychological usefulness --
Quotations on quotations --
Quotations on literature --
A study of quotations: attitudes towards numbers --
Part 4. The psychological content of quotations: Person perception and attitudes to aging --
10. Person perception and the psychological attributes of the body --
11. A study of quotations on the psychological implications of the body --
12. Prologue: Aging and the arts --
Paintings --
Literature --
Paintings and literature compared --
The next step --
13. Aging8217
s memorable lines: A study of quotations about growing old --
14. The preoccupations of aging: The subject matter of quotations --
15. Evaluations of aging in quotations --
The old compared to the young --
Old age as good or bad --
The physical-sensory aspects of aging --
Old women --
The aged8217
s relationships with others --
Quotations with modest frequencies --
Evaluations of old age over time --
Old age: good or bad? --
The contribution of quotations to the study of aging --
Part 5. Conclusion --
16. Implications of a content-oriented psychology of literature --
The focus on literary content --
Towards a perceptual emphasis --
A revitalized experimental aesthetics of literature --
Furthering interdisciplinary and other connections --
Evaluating the approach --
A personal word --
A final word --
Notes --
References cited --
Index --
The series Linguistic Approaches to Literature.