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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 3(2), pp. 27-36, February, 2015 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2015.001 Review Paper A Blended Method for Analyzing Child Abuse in Literature (BMACAL)
Dr. Maysam Bahaa Saleh
Lecturer at English Language and Literature Department/College of Arts/ Al-Mustansiriyah University Baghdad/ Iraq. Email: maysaleh1978@yahoo.com. Phone: 0060106638646
Accepted 30 January 2015
In literature in general and children’s
literature in particular various themes have been examined in connection
with violence such as abuse and bullying. The need to analyse such
themes and the characters connected with, besides to examine the effects
of abuse on their personalities and behaviours, have inspired the
researcher to blend Jung’s archetypal theory with the sociological and
psychological classifications of abuse with its types and effects to
analyze the characters’ personality and behaviour in the literary text.
The aim of the study is to open up a trend towards adapting the
psychological and the sociological studies in literature by using
Olweus’s Bullying Circle and adapting the types and negative effects of
abuse with the positive effects of individuation to examine the heroes
and antiheroes in literature who have been depicted as victims of abuse
and how was the influence of this abuse on their behaviours and
personalities. It is expected that the BMACAL (Blended Method for
Analysing Child Abuse in Literature) can be applied to analyse any
literary text whether novels, short stories or plays that tackle the
abuse and bullying problem by analysing deeply the conscious and the
unconscious of the characters. Cite This Article As: Saleh MB (2015). A Blended Method for Analyzing Child Abuse in Literature (BMACAL). Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 3(2): 27-36.
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