| Psychological Study of the Arts explores literary questions
using psychology, often psychoanalytic psychology. The materials
collected here address such questions as, Why does this writer
write the way he or she does? Why do different people read differently,
as they do? How can we understand such-and-such a character or
genre psychologically? They deal with the processes of perception,
memory, word recognition, cognitive development, metaphor, and
personal identity in both the creation and reading of literature.
The concepts explored have natural extensions to media other
than words on paper, to film, video, the visual arts, and so
on.
Psychological Study of the Arts was formed from the core of
writings by scholars of literature-and-psychology at the University
of Florida, Dr. Norman Holland and Dr. Bernard J. Paris. It
is a growing collection of electronic resources and full-text
files, intended to grow to incorporate works on the topic and
related topics regardless their author or the medium they study. |
