Cholewa-Purgal Anna Cholewa-Purgal

Therapy Through Fa rie (eBook, ePUB)

Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien's concept of Färie, as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin, has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Färie's generic 'ethos' seems to draw on 'moral imagination' and on logos (meaning and word), which informs its secondary worlds and encourages a search for an unconditional sense of life, against the postmodern neo-nihilistic aporia. The book postulates an applicability of logotherapy ('therapy through meaning', developed after WW2 by Victor Frankl,) to the workings of Färie, whose bibliotherapeutic potential rests on its generic marks, identified by Tolkien as Fantasy, Recovery, Escape (breaking free from incarcerating meaninglessness), Consolation, and (cathartic) Eucatastrophe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783631702482
• Artikelnr.: 52981124

Autorenporträt

Anna Cholewa-Purgal works at Jan Dlugosz University of Czestochowa, Poland, and holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Lódz. Her major research interests are fantasy literature, mythopoeia, ekphrasis and therapy in literature, as well as art and music therapy.

Inhaltsangabe

Fantasy fiction - Fa rie - The Inklings - J. R. R. Tolkien - C. S. Lewis - Owen Barfield - Charles Williams - Ursula K. Le Guin - Mythopoeia - Moral imagination - Neonihilism - Logotherapy - Therapy through meaning - Victor Frankl - Bibliotherapy - Narrative therapy - Catharsis - Eucatastrophe - Therapia pauperum.