Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Modern Literature

FAIN: FS-10686-77

Robert N. Wilson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)

To enhance the understanding of contemporary literature by bringing the perspectives of sociology and psychology to bear upon the thematic analysis of literary works; to examine certain problems of literary creativity and of the nature of literature as a social institution; to assess the ways in which humanists and social scientists can collaborate for a fuller knowledge of man's behavior as presented in art.