Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts Michael Sperber In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. Examining a diver… OL15178355W
Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century Allan Ingram "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of att… OL16984487W
Le FOU - CET AUTRE, MON FRÈRE - Littérature, civilisation et linguistique Le FOU - CET AUTRE, MON FRÈRE - Littérature, civilisation et linguistique Florence Marie Les articles de ce recueil explorent les modalités de la représentation du fou, comme autre mais aussi comme frère, dans le champ des études anglophones, lusophones et hispanophones. Les auteurs, ens… OL31765880W
Madhouse of Language Madhouse of Language Allan Ingram In The Madhouse of Language, the history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes toward… OL4081013W
The Abyss Above The Abyss Above Silke-Maria Weineck "In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called… OL8358650W