Rave Reviews for Lindauer’s "Psyche and the Literary Muses"

Our own Martin Lindauer’s Psyche and the Literary Muses: The Contribution of Literary Content to Scientific Knowledge (John Benjamins, 2009), “a scientific approach to literature,” is already being used in college courses! It was published just this past June -- and is garnering enthusiastic reviews from his peers in the academic world.

“If you love literature and wonder why,” writes John M. Kennedy of the University of Toronto, “Lindauer shows you how words on a page carry a tone, tug at your feelings, and prompt your moods.”

Mark A. Runco, of the University of Georgia, Athens, writes, “Psyche and the Literary Muses is even better than just an interdisciplinary perspective on literature, though it is interdisciplinary and as such offers something for everyone. Any fan of good literature will enjoy this volume… With chapters on quotations, aging, clichés, poetry, and autobiographies, and Lindauer's optimally objective perspective, this is the best book yet on the psychology of literature.”

Psyche and the Literary Muses is available on amazon.com -- and don’t forget to use www.tinyurl.com/useamazon. Amazon will donate a percentage of the purchase price to Congregation B’nai Emunah.