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

• Autore: Thiher Allen <1941->
• 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
• 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.: 9910962445703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Corporealities.