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Der Literaturwissenschaftler Walter Müller-Seidel zählt zu den einflussreichsten Vertretern seines Faches. Weit über dessen Grenzen hinaus setzte er sich mit anderen Disziplinen und Denksystemen auseinander. Seine vorliegenden Arbeiten von Goethe bis zur Weimarer Republik sind im Spannungsfeld von Psychiatrie, Strafrecht und Literatur angesiedelt und dokumentieren Elemente der literarischen und rechtlichen Entwicklungen der letzten 200 Jahre. The literary scholar Walter Müller-Seidel is among the most influential writers in his field. Going well beyond the boundaries of literature, he engaged with other disciplines and systems of thought. His papers collected in this volume extend from Goethe to the Weimar Republic, and include interfaces with psychiatry, penal law, and literature. They document the evolution of literature and the law over the past 200 years.

German literature --- Law and literature. --- Classicism --- Psychiatry in literature. --- Pseudo-classicism --- Aesthetics --- Literature --- Civilization, Classical --- Literature and law --- History and criticism. --- History

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What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

Literature and mental illness --- Psychiatry --- Psychiatry in literature. --- Russian literature --- Mental illness --- Involuntary treatment --- Dissenters --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- USSR. --- Soviet Union. --- Sowjetunion --- Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, Venedikt Erofeev, Hans Christian Andersen, Emporer's New Clothes, psychiatry and literature, Soviet psychiatrists, unsanctioned prose, unsanctioned poetry.

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This is the first full-length critical study of Paradd's End , the epic novel of the First World War, originally published in 4 volumes between 1924 and 1928, by the author and critic Ford Madox Ford. These 10 newly commissioned essays by critics focus on the psychological effects of the war, both upon Ford himself and upon his novel: its characters, its themes, and its form. The chapters explore: Ford's pioneering analysis of war trauma, trauma theory, shell shock, memory and repression, insomnia, empathy, therapy, literary Impressionism, and literary style. Other writers discussed alongside Ford include Conrad, Siegfried Sassoon, May Sinclair, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf as well as theorists William James, Freud, W. H. R. Rivers, Deleuze and Guattari, and Michel Foucault.

World War, 1914-1918 --- Combat Disorders --- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic --- Psychiatry in Literature --- World War I --- 1st World War --- First World War --- Great War --- 1914-1918 World War --- 1st World Wars --- First World Wars --- Great Wars --- War, 1st World --- War, First World --- War, Great --- Wars, 1914-1918 World --- Wars, 1st World --- Wars, First World --- Wars, Great --- World War, 1914 1918 --- World War, 1st --- World War, First --- World Wars, 1914-1918 --- World Wars, 1st --- World Wars, First --- Literature, Psychiatry in --- Psychological aspects --- Literature and the war --- psychology --- Ford, Ford Madox, --- Ford, Ford Madox --- Hueffer, Ford Madox, --- Hueffer, H. Ford, --- Huffer, Ford, --- Chaucer, Daniel, --- Hueffer, Ford Hermann, --- Hueffer, Ford M. --- Hueffer, Ford H. --- Haig, Fenil, --- Psychological aspects. --- Literature and the war.