Ritual, Family and Therapy in Anglophone Literatures
暫譯: 英語文學中的儀式、家庭與治療

Heiler, Lars

Ritual, Family and Therapy in Anglophone Literatures
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-03-11
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 257
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031831004
  • ISBN-13: 9783031831003

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商品描述

This book investigates the triadic constellations between ritual, family, and therapy in literature in English. Many rituals, so-called rites of passage in particular, are strongly associated with the changing status of individuals as members of a family unit. Traditional healing rituals were often designed to have a therapeutic effect, sometimes mentally, but also physically, whereas modern psychotherapies often include ritual elements in order to enhance the efficacy of their treatment. Families, on the other hand, can be the site of therapeutic activity by providing protection, stability, and emotional comfort; yet, difficult family constellations may also be the origin of emotional distress and the reason why a person needs counselling and therapeutic support in the first place. Modern therapies, such as family systems therapy, have expanded their range of interest and influence in order to look at the whole family unit, not just the symptomatic individual, as client. This study discusses nine literary texts--six novels, one literary memoir, and two plays--in which the three dimensions intersect and mutually influence each other.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討英語文學中儀式、家庭與治療之間的三元星座關係。許多儀式，特別是所謂的成年禮，與個體作為家庭單位成員的地位變化密切相關。傳統的治療儀式通常旨在產生治療效果，有時是心理上的，但也包括生理上的，而現代心理治療則常常包含儀式元素，以增強其治療的有效性。另一方面，家庭可以成為治療活動的場所，提供保護、穩定和情感上的安慰；然而，困難的家庭星座也可能是情感困擾的根源，並且是個人需要諮詢和治療支持的原因。現代療法，如家庭系統治療，已擴大其關注和影響範圍，以便將整個家庭單位視為客戶，而不僅僅是有症狀的個體。本研究討論了九部文學文本——六部小說、一部文學回憶錄和兩部劇本——在這三個維度交叉並相互影響的情況。

作者簡介

Lars Heiler is an associate professor of British and American Literature and Culture at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is the author of a monograph on Regression and Cultural Critique in the Contemporary British Novel (2004, in German) and is co-editor of Taboo and Transgression in British Literature From the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He has published book chapters on literature and censorship, literature and therapy, literature and the Holocaust, literary representations of femininity, postmodern representations of the pastoral, US and Canadian adaptations of Shakespeare, and post-colonial re-writings. He has given public talks on British and US theatre and fiction, including Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Truman Capote, and Noah Haidle. He has also co-written several stage plays, most recently a play on the complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare, entitled Shakespeare - Cut and in One Piece (2023).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Lars Heiler 是德國卡塞爾大學英國與美國文學及文化的副教授。他是專著《當代英國小說中的回歸與文化批評》（2004年，德文）的作者，並且是《從文藝復興到現在的英國文學中的禁忌與越界》（Palgrave Macmillan，2010年）的共同編輯。他發表過有關文學與審查、文學與治療、文學與大屠殺、女性主義的文學表現、後現代的田園表現、美國和加拿大的莎士比亞改編以及後殖民重寫的書章。他曾就英國和美國的戲劇及小說進行公開演講，包括維吉尼亞·伍爾夫、維塔·薩克維爾-韋斯特、杜魯門·卡波特和諾亞·海德爾。他還共同創作了幾部舞台劇，最近的一部是關於威廉·莎士比亞完整戲劇作品的劇本，名為《莎士比亞 - 剪裁與完整》（2023年）。

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