Women, mysticism, and hysteria in fin-de-siecle spain, Smith, Jennifer
Автор: Bronfen Elisabeth Название: The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents ISBN: 0691636842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691636849 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 198530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Surrealist writer Andr Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the wastebasket of medicine, a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent.
Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot, and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself.
Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offers fresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel--a knotted originary wound common to both genders--facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology.
Originally published in 1998.
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Автор: Kukla, Rebecca Название: Mass hysteria ISBN: 0742533581 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742533585 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 59130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examining the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding, this book states that late eighteenth century practices reshaped mothers` bodies. As a result, it is difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public and private space.
Автор: Furse Название: Augustine (Big Hysteria) ISBN: 1138964158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138964150 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Автор: Timpano Nathan J. Название: Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet ISBN: 0367736187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367736187 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks.
Автор: Mark Honigsbaum Название: A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920 ISBN: 1350160083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350160088 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu was therefore a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties - playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.
Автор: Micklem Название: The Nature of Hysteria ISBN: 1138872032 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138872035 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 37760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Today the medical profession has virtually abandoned the diagnosis of hysteria. Niel Micklem argues that this does not mean that hysteria has ceased to exist but that the disease has merely shifted into other personal and collective forms.
The revolution of 1905 challenged not only the social and political structures of imperial Russia but the sexual order as well. Throughout the decade that followed-in the salons of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde, on the pages of popular romances, in the staid assemblies of physicians, psychiatrists, and legal men—the talk everywhere was of sex.
This eagerly awaited book, echoing the title of a pre-World War I bestseller, The Keys to Happiness, marks the first serious attempt to understand the intense public interest in sexuality as a vital dimension of late tsarist political culture. Drawing on a strong foundation of historical sources—from medical treatises and legal codes to anti-Semitic pamphlets, commercial fiction, newspaper advertisements, and serious literature—Laura Engelstein shows how Western ideas and attitudes toward sex and gender were transformed in the Russian context as imported views on prostitution, venereal disease, homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, and other themes took on distinctively Russian hues.
Engelstein divides her study into two parts, the first focusing on the period from the Great Reforms to 1905 and on the two professional disciplines most central to the shaping of a modern sexual discourse in Russia: law and medicine. The second part describes the complicated sexual preoccupations that accompanied the mobilization leading up to 1905, the revolution itself, and the aftermath of continued social agitation and intensified intellectual doubt. In chapters of astonishing richness, the author follows the sexual theme through the twists of professional and civic debate and in the surprising links between high and low culture up to the eve of the First World War.
Throughout, Engelstein uses her findings to rethink the conventional wisdom about the political and cultural history of modern Russia. She maps out new approaches to the history of sexuality, and shows, brilliantly, how the study of attitudes toward sex and gender can help us to grasp the most fundamental political issues in any society.
Автор: Ashby Charlotte Название: Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-Siecle Culture ISBN: 1782389261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782389262 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 31970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Viennese caf? was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-si?cle Vienna. Just as the caf? served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Название: Women`s emancipation writing at the fin de siecle ISBN: 0367664348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367664343 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 45930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siecle. This volume analyzes women`s voices from different parts of the world-Turkey, England, the U.S., Italy, Russia, Spain, and others.
Автор: Gafijczuk Dariusz Название: Identity, Aesthetics, and Sound in the Fin de Siecle: Redesigning Perception ISBN: 1138952885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138952881 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 47970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is an analytic and historical portrait of the volatile decades at the beginning of the20th century. Engaging with avant-garde art and thought, and concentrating on two of the most controversial and still culturally relevant personalities of Viennese modernism - Sigmund Freud and Arnold Schoenberg - it tells the story of a cultural experiment of unprecedented proportions, an experiment that attempted to redesign the senses and the concept of individual identity. The book describes the shape of this identity through its mutually overlapping artistic and intellectual dimensions, as it explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and music.
Автор: McAleer Kevin Название: Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany ISBN: 0691608415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691608419 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The question of what it takes "to be a man" comes under scrutiny in this sharp, often playful, cultural critique of the German duel--the deadliest type of one-on-one combat in fin-de-siecle Europe. At a time when dueling was generally restricted to swords or had been abolished altogether in other nations, the custom of fighting to the death with pi
Автор: Ashby Charlotte Название: Viennese Cafe and Fin-de-siecle Culture ISBN: 0857457640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857457646 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 113250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Viennese caf? was a key site of urban modernity around 1900. In the rapidly growing city it functioned simultaneously as home and workplace, affording opportunities for both leisure and intellectual exchange. This volume explores the nature and function of the coffeehouse in the social, cultural, and political world of fin-de-si?cle Vienna. Just as the caf? served as a creative meeting place within the city, so this volume initiates conversations between different disciplines focusing on Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributions are drawn from the fields of social and cultural history, literary studies, Jewish studies and art, and architectural and design history. A fresh perspective is also provided by a selection of comparative articles exploring coffeehouse culture elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
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