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Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature / / Allen Thiher



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Autore: Thiher Allen <1941-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Revels in madness : insanity in medicine and literature / / Allen Thiher Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c1999
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (363 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.93353
Soggetto topico: Literature and mental illness
Mental illness in literature
Mental illness - History
Psychiatry - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-335) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Part 1. Madness from Hippocrates to Hölderlin; Chapter 1. Discourses on Madness in the Greco-Roman World; Chapter 2. Continuities and Ruptures in Medieval Folly; Chapter 3. Madness and Early Modernity in Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Descartes; Chapter 4. The latro-Mechanical Era and the Madness of Machines; Chapter 5. Neoclassicism, the Rise of Singularity, and Moral Treatment; Part 2. The Modernity of Madness; Chapter 6. The German Romantics and the Invention of Psychiatry; Chapter 7. Pathological Anatomy and the Poetics of Madness
Chapter 8. Modern Determinations of Insanity: Psychiatry and PsychoanalysisChapter 9. Modernist Poetic Discourses in Madness; Chapter 10. The Contemporary Scene's Affirmation of and Rebellion against Logos; Postscript: Madness between History and Neurology; Notes; Index
Sommario/riassunto: A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
Titolo autorizzato: Revels in madness  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-46312-8
1-283-51935-6
9786612463129
9786613831804
0-472-08999-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817522303321
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