1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463880403321

Autore

Silverman Gillian D. <1967->

Titolo

Bodies and books [[electronic resource] ] : reading and the fantasy of communion in nineteenth-century America / / Gillian Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89880-2

0-8122-0618-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Intimacy (Psychology) in literature

Interpersonal relations in literature

Books and reading - Psychological aspects

Books and reading - United States - History - 19th century

Authors and readers - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. Reading and the Search for Oneness -- Introduction. The Fantasy of Communion -- Chapter 1. Railroad Reading, Wayward Reading -- Chapter 2. Books and the Dead -- Chapter 3. Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and the Author-Reader Bond in Melville's Pierre -- Chapter 4. Outside the Circle: Embodied Communion in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative -- Chapter 5. "The Polishing Attrition": Reading, Writing, and Renunciation in the Work of Susan Warner -- Epilogue. No End in Sight -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading-and particularly book reading-precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a book, the reader imagined touching and being touched by the people affiliated with that book's narrative world-an author, a character, a fellow reader. This experience often led to a sense of consubstantiality, a fantasy that the reader, the material book, and the imagined other were momentarily merged. Such a fantasy



challenges psychological conceptions of discrete subjectivity along with the very notion of corporeal integrity-the idea that we are detached, skin-bound, and autonomously functioning entities. It forces us to envision readers not as liberal subjects, pursuing reading as a means toward privacy, interiority, and individuation, but rather as communal beings inseparable from objects in our psychic and phenomenal world. While theorists have long emphasized the way reading can promote a sense of abstract belonging, Bodies and Books emphasizes the intense somatic bonds that nineteenth-century subjects experienced while reading. Silverman bridges the gap between the cognitive and material effects of reading, arguing that the two worked in tandem, enabling readers to feel deep communion with objects (both human and nonhuman) in the external world. Drawing on the letters and diaries of nineteenth-century readers along with literary works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Susan Warner, and others, Silverman explores the book as a technology of intimacy and ponders what nineteenth-century readers might be able to teach us two centuries later.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004046859707536

Autore

Audin, Michèle

Titolo

Geometry / Michèle Audin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : Springer, c2003

Titolo uniforme

Géométrie English 49969

ISBN

3540434984

Descrizione fisica

vi, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Universitext

Classificazione

AMS 51-XX

LC QA445.A8413

Disciplina

516

Soggetti

Geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-346) and index



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778901403321

Autore

Thomsen Per Hove

Titolo

From thoughts to obsessions : obsessive compulsive disorder in children and adolescents / / Per Hove Thomsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, , 1998

ISBN

1-84642-257-4

0-585-12343-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages)

Disciplina

618.92/85227

Soggetti

Obsessive-compulsive disorder in adolescence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

1. The definition of OCD 2. Earlier attitudes to OCD 3. The clinical picture 4. How common is OCD? 5. Cultural aspects of OCD 6. Obsessive features as part of normal development 7. The course of OCD 8. OCD seen in relation to other mental illnesses during childhood and adolescence 9. The treatment of OCD 10. What are the causes of OCD? 11. How can one determine whether a child has OCD? 12. Epilogue App. I. Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) App. II. International Classification of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder App. III. Diagnostic Criteria for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Sommario/riassunto

"Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is the term given to a condition characterized by recurring obsessive thoughts or actions. These thoughts or actions are involuntary and are often a response to a deep-rooted fear. This introductory book, richly illustrated with case examples, explains the nature and treatment of OCD in children and adolescents. OCD has been little discussed in relation to this age group, although it is now believed that approximately 1 per cent of all children and adolescents suffers from serious obsessive disorders."--Jacket