Author: Emile ZolaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Monomaniac
Author: Emile ZolaThe Monomaniac: Or, Shirley Hall Asylum
Author: William GilbertPublisher:
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Monomaniac and Minor Poems
Author: Joseph Philip RobsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Monomaniac of Love. A Study in the Pathology of Character. [A Novel.]
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Author: MonomaniacThe monomaniac of love
Author: MonomaniacMonomania
Author: Marina Van ZuylenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501717456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the idée fixe, who have come close to surrendering to something or someone diabolically seductive or coercive, will recognize in these characters their own encounter with a dangerously systematized world."—From the introduction. Monomania explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marina van Zuylen revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession. She introduces us to artists and collectors, voyeurs and scholars, hypochondriacs and melancholics, whose lives are run by debilitating compulsions that may become powerful weapons against the tyranny of everyday life. In van Zuylen's view, there is a productive tension between disabling fixations and their curative powers; she argues that the idée fixe has acted as a corrective for the multiple disorders of modernity. The authors she studies—Charles Baudelaire, Sophie Calle, Elias Canetti, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann among them—embody or set in motion different manifestations of this monomaniacal imperative. Their protagonists or alter egos live more intensely, more meaningfully, because of the compulsive pressures they set up for themselves. Monomania shows that transforming life into art, or at least into the artful, drives out the anxiety of the void and puts in its place something so orderly and meaningful that it can take on the aura of a religion.
The Living Age
Author: Mental Maladies; a Treatise on Insanity
Author: Etienne EsquirolPublisher:
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Category : Forensic psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Another World, Or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
Author: Benjamin LumleyPublisher:
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Category : Mars (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Some Keywords in Dickens
Author: Michael HollingtonPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847013157
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This volume shows how highly conscious Dickens was of words – of their meaning of course, and of the ideas they conjured up, but also of their very substance, texture, plasticity, visuality, and resonance, as well as their interactions with other words, and with their cultural environment. Each keyword is treated not as a semantic unit with a fixed meaning but rather as a flexible linguistic construct. Some keywords are just a word, a characteristic or even idiosyncratic lexical unit; some are treated as a load-bearing conceptual category or theme; some disintegrate into noise, complicating readers' assumptions about what a keyword must be. The focus shifts from "word" at micro- to macro-levels of signification, at times denoting wider cultural usage. Dynamic relations, oppositions, correlations and overlappings result from these individualized reading journeys, creating unforeseen and rich systems of meaning.