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Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent.Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot, and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself.Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offers fresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel--a knotted originary wound common to both genders--facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Psychological study of literature --- Thematology --- Film --- Depth psychology --- Hysteria --- Hysteria in literature --- Hysteria in motion pictures --- Hysterical neuroses --- Hysterie --- Hysterie in de film --- Hysterie in de literatuur --- Hystérie --- Hystérie dans la littérature --- Hystérie dans le cinéma --- 82:159.9 --- Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- Hysteria in literature. --- Hysteria in motion pictures. --- Hysteria. --- Navel --- Psychoanalyse --- Symbolic aspects. --- cultuur en religie --- 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- cultuur en religie. --- Mass Media --- Histrionic Personality Disorder --- History --- Philosophy --- Humanities --- Abdomen --- Audiovisual Aids --- Personality Disorders --- Educational Technology --- Teaching Materials --- Communications Media --- Body Regions --- Technology --- Information Science --- Mental Disorders --- Anatomy --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Motion Pictures as Topic --- Symbolism --- Umbilicus --- Literature --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Symbolic aspects --- Belly button --- Omphalos --- Hysteric passion --- Hysterica passio --- Hysterical neurosis --- Hysterical passion --- Passio hysterica --- Vapors (Disease) --- Vapours (Disease) --- Umbilical cord --- Motion pictures --- Neuroses --- Ecstasy --- Navel - Symbolic aspects.
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Film noir --- Women in motion pictures. --- Transvestites in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Wagner, Richard, --- Shakespeare, William, --- Influence. --- Characters --- Women. --- Cross-dressers in literature. --- Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) --- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616 ) --- Femmes --- Personnages de théâtre --- Travestisme --- Influence --- Personnages --- Au théâtre --- Au cinéma --- Dans la littérature
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Who can forget Dorothy's quest for the great and powerful Oz as she tried to return to her beloved Kansas? She thought she needed a wizard's magic, only to discover that home-and the power to get there-had been with her all along. This engaging and provocative book proposes that Hollywood has created an imaginary cinematic geography filled with people and places we recognize and to which we are irresistibly drawn. Each viewing of a film stirs, in a very real and charismatic way, feelings of home, and the comfort of returning to films like familiar haunts is at the core of our nostalgic desire. Leading us on a journey through American film, Elisabeth Bronfen examines the different ways home is constructed in the development of cinematic narrative. Each chapter includes a close reading of such classic films as Fleming's The Wizard of Oz, Sirk's Imitation of Life, Burton's Batman Returns, Hitchcock's Rebecca, Ford's The Searchers, and Sayles's Lone Star.
Thematology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Film --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- Cinéma. --- Film. --- Filmkunst. --- Films. --- Filmwirtschaft. --- Heimatgefühl. --- Kultfilm. --- Motion pictures. --- Thuis. --- Los Angeles- Hollywood. --- USA.
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Der Literarische Raum: Eine Untersuchung Am Beispiel Von Dorothy M. Richardsons Romanzyklus ""Pilgrimage"".
Autobiographical fiction, English --- 820 "19" RICHARDSON, DOROTHY --- English autobiographical fiction --- Space and time as a theme in literature --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--RICHARDSON, DOROTHY --- -Richardson, Dorothy Miller --- -Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--RICHARDSON, DOROTHY --- 820 "19" RICHARDSON, DOROTHY Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--RICHARDSON, DOROTHY --- -Space and time as a theme in literature --- Cycles (Literature) --- Space and time in literature --- Women and literature --- Literature --- Sequels (Literature) --- History and criticism --- History --- Richardson, Dorothy Miller, --- Space and time in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Richardson, Dorothy M. --- Women and literature - England - History - 20th century --- Autobiographical fiction, English - History and criticism --- Richardson, Dorothy Miller, - 1873-1957 - Pilgrimage
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History of civilization --- Film. --- Irrationalität. --- Kultur. --- Literatur. --- Nacht --- Nacht. --- Night in art. --- Night in literature. --- Kultur
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The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.
82:3 --- 82:396 --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Femininity (Psychology) in literature. --- Féminité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Féminité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Death --- Death in art. --- Death in literature. --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics). --- Femininity in literature. --- Women in art. --- Women in literature. --- Mort --- Mort dans l'art --- Mort dans la littérature --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- Femmes dans l'art --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- Femmes --- Féminité (psychologie) --- Beauté féminine (esthétique) --- Dans la littérature --- Dans l'art
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Specters of War looks at the way war has been brought to the screen in various genres and at different historical moments throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Elisabeth Bronfen asserts that Hollywood has emerged as a place where national narratives are created and circulated so that audiences can engage with fantasies, ideologies, and anxieties that take hold at a given time, only to change with the political climate. Such cultural reflection is particularly poignant when it deals with America’s traumatic history of war. The nation has no direct access to war as a horrific experience of carnage and human destruction; we understand our relation to it through images and narratives that transmit and interpret it for us. Bronfen does not discuss actual conflicts but the films by which we have come to know and remember them, including All Quiet on the Western Front, The Best Years of Our Lives, Miracle at St. Anna, The Deer Hunter, and Flags of Our Fathers. Battles and campaigns, the home front and women-who-wait narratives, war correspondents, and court martials are also explored as instruments of cultural memory. Bronfen argues that we are haunted by past wars and by cinematic re-conceptualizations of them, and reveals a national iconography of redemptive violence from which we seem unable to escape.
War films --- History and criticism. --- United States --- History and criticism
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Poets, American --- Plath, Sylvia --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lucas, Victoria --- Hughes, Sylvia --- Plat, Silvii︠a︡ --- Plaṭ, Silviyah --- פלאת, סילביה --- 西爾維婭.普拉斯 --- Plathová, Sylvia --- Phlǣt, Silwīya
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Even the most brilliant minds have to eat. And for some scholars, food preparation is more than just a chore; it's a passion. In this unique culinary memoir and cookbook, renowned cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen tells of her lifelong love affair with cooking and demonstrates what she has learned about creating delicious home meals. She recounts her cherished food memories, from meals eaten at the family table in postwar Germany to dinner parties with friends. Yet, in a thoughtful reflection on the pleasures of cooking for one, she also reveals that some of her favorite meals have been consumed alone. Though it contains more than 250 mouth-watering recipes, Obsessed is anything but a conventional cookbook. As she shares a lifetime of knowledge acquired in the kitchen, Bronfen hopes to empower both novice and experienced home chefs to improvise, giving them hints on how to tweak her recipes to their own tastes. And unlike cookbooks that assume readers have access to an unlimited pantry, this book is grounded in reality, offering practical advice about food storage and reusing leftovers. As Bronfen serves up her personal stories and her culinary wisdom, reading Obsessed is like sitting down to a home-cooked meal with a clever friend.
Critics --- Cooking. --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Bronfen, Elisabeth. --- Bronfen, Elisabeth
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