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

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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1. Verfasser: Spackman, Barbara, 1952- (Verfasst von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London : Cornell University Press, [1989]
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Zusammenfassung: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 provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9781501723315
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access