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Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472024476
A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present
Author : Austin Sarat,Lawrence Douglas,Martha Umphrey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472031597
This collection of essays discusess the ways in which the law takes its definition from what it excludes, suppresses, or excises from itself, i.e. the irrational and unstable.
Author : A. Harpin,J. Foster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137337252
This exciting collection of essays explores the complex area of madness and performance. The book spans from the 18th century to the present and unearths the overlooked history of theatre and performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals. The book will appeal to historians, social scientists, theatre scholars, and artists alike.
Author : Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000461961
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Although there have been numerous volumes examining the medical and social dimensions of mental illness in the early modern period, and a few that have examined stage representations of such conditions, this volume is unique in its focus on the relationships between madness, kingship, and the anxiety of lost or fragile masculinity. The chapters uncover how, as the early modern understanding of mental illness refocused on human, rather than supernatural, causes, public stages became important arenas for playwrights, actors, and audiences to explore expressions of madness and to practice diagnoses. Throughout the volume, the authors engage with the field of disability studies to show how disability and mental health were portrayed on stage and what those representations reveal about the period and the people who lived in it. Altogether, the essays question what happens when theatrical expressions of madness are mapped onto the bodies of actors playing kings, and how the threat of diminished masculinity affects representations of power. This volume is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in the history of kingship, gender, and politics in early modern drama.
Author : Robert Ellis,Sarah Kendal,Steven J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030695590
This book presents new perspectives on the multiplicity of voices in the histories of mental ill-health. In the thirty years since Roy Porter called on historians to lower their gaze so that they might better understand patient-doctor roles in the past, historians have sought to place the voices of previously silent, marginalised and disenfranchised individuals at the heart of their analyses. Today, the development of service-user groups and patient consultations have become an important feature of the debates and planning related to current approaches to prevention, care and treatment. This edited collection of interdisciplinary chapters offers new and innovative perspectives on mental health and illness in the past and covers a breadth of opinions, views, and interpretations from patients, practitioners, policy makers, family members and wider communities. Its chronology runs from the early modern period to the twenty-first century and includes international and transnational analyses from Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, drawing on a range of sources and methodologies including oral histories, material culture, and the built environment. Chapter 4 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author : Anja Drautzburg
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9783863954598
This study traces key developments in theatre’s engagement with mental health since the 1970s. It introduces and applies the concept of the ‘mental health play’ as accurate and timely in addressing the way mental distress and mental illness have been brought to the stage. The study argues that the theatre is a central calibrator for reflecting developments and tensions in, as well as attitudes towards, mental health care, and thus opens up a domain that still has stereotypes and myths attached to it. Theatre’s representations of mental distress inform and shape cultural production and vice versa. Mental health plays are central in encouraging and fostering conversations about mental health, and they thus intervene in ongoing debates. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this study contributes to and extends existing research in multiple fields, including theatre and science, performance studies, and the medical humanities.
Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176010
The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.
Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472067480
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
Author : Aleksei Grinenko
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472221332
Theatermakers in the United States have long been drawn to madness as a source of dramatic spectacle. During the Broadway musical’s golden age in the mid-twentieth century, creative teams used the currently in-vogue psychoanalytic ideas about mental life to construct troubled characters at odds with themselves and their worlds. As the clinical and cultural profile of madness transformed over the twentieth century, musicals continued to delve into the experience of those living with mental pain, trauma, and unhappiness. Seriously Mad offers a dynamic account of stage musicals’ engagement with historically significant theories about mental distress, illness, disability, and human variance in the United States. By exploring who is considered mad and what constitutes madness at different moments in U.S. history, Aleksei Grinenko shows how, in attempts to bring the musicals closer to highbrow sophistication, theater dramatized serious medical conditions and social problems. Among the many Broadway productions discussed are Next to Normal, A Strange Loop, Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, Oklahoma!, and Lady in the Dark.
Author : Gary L. Albrecht,Katherine D. Seelman,Michael Bury
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781452212531
This path-breaking international handbook of disability studies signals the emergence of a vital new area of scholarship, social policy and activism. Drawing on the insights of disability scholars around the world and the creative advice of an international editorial board, the book engages the reader in the critical issues and debates framing disability studies and places them in an historical and cultural context. Five years in the making, this one volume summarizes the ongoing discourse ranging across continents and traditional academic disciplines. To provide insight and perspective, the volume is divided into three sections: The shaping of disability studies as a field; experiencing disability; and, disability in context. Each section, written by world class figures, consists of original chapters designed to map the field and explore the key conceptual, theoretical, methodological, practice and policy issues that constitute the field. Each chapter provides a critical review of an area, positions and literature and an agenda for future research and practice. The handbook answers the need expressed by the disability community for a thought provoking, interdisciplinary, international examination of the vibrant field of disability studies. The book will be of interest to disabled people, scholars, policy makers and activists alike. The book aims to define the existing field, stimulate future debate, encourage respectful discourse between different interest groups and move the field a step forward.
Author : Matthew Rubery
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503633421
What does the term "reading" mean? Matthew Rubery's exploration of the influence neurodivergence has on the ways individuals read asks us to consider that there may be no one definition. This alternative history of reading tells the stories of "atypical" readers and the impact had on their lives by neurological conditions affecting their ability to make sense of the printed word: from dyslexia, hyperlexia, and alexia to synesthesia, hallucinations, and dementia. Rubery's focus on neurodiversity aims to transform our understanding of the very concept of reading. Drawing on personal testimonies gathered from literature, film, life writing, social media, medical case studies, and other sources to express how cognitive differences have shaped people's experiences both on and off the page, Rubery contends that there is no single activity known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and, for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which we use the term. Pushing us to rethink what it means to read, Reader's Block moves toward an understanding of reading as a spectrum that is capacious enough to accommodate the full range of activities documented in this fascinating and highly original book. Read it from cover to cover, out of sequence, or piecemeal. Read it upside down, sideways, or in a mirror. For just as there is no right way to read, there is no right way to read this book. What matters is that you are doing something with it—something that Rubery proposes should be called "reading."
Author : John Wilkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 019924068X
This book explains the importance of food to ancient Greek comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New.
Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw,Jason Zysk
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810140509
The term “secular” inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transactions in the Age of Shakespeare argue that Shakespeare’s plays present “secularization” not only as a historical narrative of progress but also as a hermeneutic process that unleashes complex and often problematic transactions between sacred and secular. These transactions shape ideas about everything from pastoral government and performative language to wonder and the spatial imagination. Thinking about Shakespeare and secularization also involves thinking about how to interpret history and temporality in the contexts of Shakespeare’s medieval past, the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, and the critical dispositions that define Shakespeare studies today. These essays reject a necessary opposition between “sacred” and “secular” and instead analyze how such categories intersect. In fresh analyses of plays ranging from Hamlet and The Tempest to All’s Well that Ends Well and All Is True, secularization emerges as an interpretive act that explores the cultural protocols of representation within both Shakespeare’s plays and the critical domains in which they are studied and taught. The volume’s diverse disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches shift our focus from literal religion and doctrinal issues to such aspects of early modern culture as theatrical performance, geography, race, architecture, music, and the visual arts.
Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 9780198873006
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary scientific innovation, but with the rise of psychiatry, faiths and popular beliefs were often seen as signs of a diseased mind. By exploring the beliefs of asylum patients, we see the nineteenth century in a new light, with science, faith, and the supernatural deeply entangled in a fast-changing world. The birth of psychiatry in the early nineteenth-century fundamentally changed how madness was categorised and understood. A century on, their conceptions of mental illness continue to influence our views today. Beliefs and behaviour were divided up into the pathological and the healthy. The influence of religion and the supernatural became significant measures of insanity in individuals, countries, and cultures. Psychiatrists not only thought they could transform society in the industrial age but also explain the many strange beliefs expressed in the distant past. Troubled by Faith explores these ideas about the supernatural across society through the prism of medical history. It is a story of how people continued to make sense of the world in supernatural terms, and how belief came to be a medical issue. This cannot be done without exploring the lives of those who found themselves in asylums because of their belief in ghosts, witches, angels, devils, and fairies, or because they though themselves in divine communication, or were haunted by modern technology. The beliefs expressed by asylum patients were not just an expression of their individual mental health, but also provide a unique reflection of society at the time - a world still steeped in the ideas and imagery of folklore and faith in a fast-changing world.
Author : DHANIKA MALIK
Publisher : JEC PUBLICATION
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789358500073
Unbothered is an open-themed book authored by a variety of writers with different perspectives. Various thoughts and ideas are shared by inspiring authors in this book. We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we did. Wishing you a wonderful reading experience!
