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Article: Anne Tyler's 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant': a critical feast.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)
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- June 22, 1997
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John V. Knapp makes the case that psychological approaches to literary interpretation can be enhanced by broadening the hermeneutic base to include a variety of psycho-social perspectives.(1) Those of us involved in teaching literature know the merits of Knapp's argument. My own students understand "family systems therapy" - at least on an informal basis - because they have lived it on a conscious level; they understand dysfunctional families. For that reason, some might relate with more immediate affect to works such as Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982) than they do to Hamlet, whose protagonist they see as the "product of a dysfunctional family" long ...
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