Decadent Genealogies : The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio /

Decadent Genealogies : The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio /

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Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provide...

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Main Author: Spackman, Barbara, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, [1989]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geestelijke crises.
Decadentie.
Letterkunde.
Mental illness in literature.
Literature > Psychology.
Literature, Modern.
Decadence (Literary movement)
Decadence in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature > Psychologie.
Litterature > Aspect psychologique.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Maladies mentales dans la litterature.
Decadence dans la litterature.
Decadentisme.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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