Decadent Genealogies : The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

Decadent Genealogies The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

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Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Spackman, Barbara, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 2018
[2018]
Materias:
Decadence (Literary movement).
Decadence in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
History of medicine
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Sumario:Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781501723308

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