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Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

King Lear is not about the psychology of the aging brain, nor is it a true story, and yet it may have truth to tell about the psychology of the aging ... It doesn’t matter that the authors in question have almost never read the relevant psychology that

Experimental social psychology aims to produce controlled, accurate accounts of interpersonal dynamics of all kinds; theatre and literary criticism aim, at least in one tradition, to provide accurate accounts of how ... A. Tesser and C. Leone,

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts’ (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000069. David Kidd and Emanuele Castano, ‘Reading Literary Fiction and Theory of Mind: Three Preregistered Replications and ... David Kidd and Emanuele Castano,

Although I first met theoria as “awareness” in scholarship on Aristotle, to whose psychology it pertains, awareness would be a congenial conception with respect to the deconstructive contribution of Derrida, whose

Any attempt to apply graphology in the realms of psychology or medicine, however, just seems like bald charlatanism to me.

She has also published other essays on Piers Plowman, Chaucer, medieval literary theory, song, psychology and allegory. ... His other books include Plato Republic Book 10 (1988), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), Greek

Good title: it made me think of a popular psychology version of Ovid’s great epic poem the Metamorphoses. ... One time, it was ‘Last Man’ fiction. This time, it was crossover-popular psychology-ish books.

Dunbar is collaborating with Laurie Maguire (Shakespeare) and Felix Budelmann (Greek Tragedy) on a project linking drama with social psychology. ... Keith Oatley, Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

Even if Charles weren’t my friend, I would still think this is a flagship for work spanning literature and psychology. ... The great thing about blogging as I did for five years was regular exposure to new ideas in Psychology, some of which proved very