Author: Stuart, Simon
Title: New Phoenix Wings. Reparation in Literature
Description: London/ Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1979). orig.boards. 22x14cm, viii, 188 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ An essay in applied psychoanalysis...from a Kleinian point of view... gives special prominence to the poetry of Blake & Wordsworth, in particular those works often featuring childhood which reflect most clearly their own origin in the poets' minds...also examines a selection of written and graphic productions of children...in this way he offers fresh insights both into two of the masters of English Romanticism and into the nature of creativity itself. The book concludes with a study of Shakespeare's 'Much Ado About Nothing' in which the theory of reparation is seen to be exemplified..." [dustwrapper quotation]

Keywords: Psychoanalytic criticism, Literary theory, Melanie Klein, English literature, Romantic poetry, Reparation, Kleinian analysis, ,