Imagination and Awareness: Literature as Society's Analyst by Bennett, Sheila - 1988

Published by Vantage Press, Inc. 516 West 34th Street, New York First Edition 1988. 1988., 1988. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covers, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' [xii]. Contains 244 printed pages of text. ISBN 0533074398. Ten years in the making, a masterful synthesis of insights from psychology and literature, it develops the thesis that literature provides for Western society what primitive societies achieve by their own particular rituals and what psychoanalysis offers to individuals in modern technological communities. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0533074398