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Sanity, Madness, Transformation

Ross Greig Woodman
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Author : Ross Greig Woodman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802038418

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In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and that it has been likewise fundamental to the emergence of the modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye, madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are drawn from an earlier Romantic ambivalence about madness. This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book that approached Romanticism from an original psychoanalytic perspective by returning madness to its proper place in the creative psyche. Sanity, Madness, Transformation is a provocative hybrid of theory, literary criticism, and autobiography and is yet another decisive step in a distinguished academic career.

Sanity, Madness, Transformation

Ross Greig Woodman
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Author : Ross Greig Woodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1442686286

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Sanity, Madness, Transformation by Ross Greig Woodman Pdf

In Sanity, Madness, Transformation, Ross Woodman offers an extended reflection on the relationship between sanity and madness in Romantic literature. Woodman is one of the field's most distinguished authorities on psychoanalysis and romanticism. Engaging with the works of Northrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, he argues that madness is essential to the writings of William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley, and that it has been likewise fundamental to the emergence of the modern subject in psychoanalysis and literary theory. For Frye, madness threatens humanism, whereas for Derrida its relationship is more complex, and more productive. Both approaches are informed by Freudian and Jungian responses to the psyche, which, in turn, are drawn from an earlier Romantic ambivalence about madness. This work, which began as a collection of Woodman's essays assembled by colleague Joel Faflak, quickly evolved into a new book that approached Romanticism from an original psychoanalytic perspective by returning madness to its proper place in the creative psyche. "Sanity, Madness, Transformation" is a provocative hybrid of theory, literary criticism, and autobiography and is yet another decisive step in a distinguished academic career.

Transforming Tragedy, Identity, and Community

Lilla Crisafulli,Tilottama Rajan,Diego Saglia
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Author : Lilla Crisafulli,Tilottama Rajan,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317982555

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Transforming Tragedy, Identity, and Community by Lilla Crisafulli,Tilottama Rajan,Diego Saglia Pdf

The volume explores the interrelated topics of transnational identity in all its ambiguity and complexity, and the new ways of imagining community or Gemeinschaft (as distinct from society or Gesellschaft)) that this broader climate made possible in the Romantic period. The period crystallized, even if it did not inaugurate, an unprecedented interest in travel and exploration, as well as in the dissemination of the knowledge thus acquired through print media and learned societies. This dissemination expanded but also unmoored both epistemic and national boundaries. It thus led to what Antoine Berman in his study of translation tellingly calls “the experience of the foreign,” as a zone of differences between and within selves, of which translation was the material expression and symptom. As several essays in the collection suggest, it is this mental travel that distinguishes the Romantic probing of transitional zones from that of earlier periods when travel and exploration were more purely under the sign of trade and commerce and thus of appropriation and colonization. The renegotiation of national and cultural boundaries also raises the question of what kinds of community are possible in this environment. A group of essays therefore explores the period’s alternative communities, and the ways in which it tested the limits of the very concept of community. Finally, the volume also explores the interrelationship between notions of identity and community by turning to Romantic theatre. Concentrating on the stage as monitor and mirror of contemporary ideological developments, a dedicated section of this book looks at the evolution of the tragic in European Romanticisms and how its inherent conflicts became vehicles for contrasting representations of individual and communal identities. This book was published as a special issue of European Romantic Review

Madness and the Romantic Poet

James Whitehead
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Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198733706

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Madness and the Romantic Poet by James Whitehead Pdf

Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774

Natali, Ilaria
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Author : Natali, Ilaria
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788864533193

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«Remov'd from human eyes»: Madness and Poetry 1676-1774 by Natali, Ilaria Pdf

The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.

Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

Lloyd Hughes Davies
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Author : Lloyd Hughes Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835765

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Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture by Lloyd Hughes Davies Pdf

This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.

Romantic Narrative

Tilottama Rajan
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Author : Tilottama Rajan
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801899218

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Romantic Narrative by Tilottama Rajan Pdf

Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent modernity and the place of Romanticism itself in a Victorianized nineteenth century. While engaging both genres, Romantic Narrative responds to the current critical shift from poetry to prose by concentrating, paradoxically, on a poetics of narrative in Romantic prose fiction. Rajan argues that poiesis, as a mode of thinking, is Romanticism’s legacy to an age of prose. She elucidates this thesis through careful readings of Shelley’s Alastor and his Gothic novels, Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St. Leon, Hays’ Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman. Rajan, winner of the Keats-Shelley Association's Distinguished Lifetime Award and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is one of Romanticism’s leading scholars. Effective, articulate, and readable, Romantic Narrative will appeal to scholars in both nineteenth-century studies and narrative theory.

How and Why We Still Read Jung

Jean Kirsch,Murray Stein
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Author : Jean Kirsch,Murray Stein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135046989

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How and Why We Still Read Jung by Jean Kirsch,Murray Stein Pdf

How relevant is Jung’s work today? How and Why We Still Read Jung offers a fresh look at how Jung’s work can still be read and applied to the modern day. Written by seasoned Jungian analysts and Jung scholars, the essays in this collection offer in depth and often personal readings of various works by Jung, including: Ambiguating Jung Jung and Alchemy: A Diamonic Reading Chinese Modernity and the Way of Return Jung: Respect for the Non-Literal Including contributions from around the world, this book will be of interest to Jungian analysts and academic Jung scholars globally. With a unique and fresh analysis of Jung’s work by eminent authors in the field, this book will also be a valuable starting point for a first-time reader of Jung.

Revelation and Knowledge

Ross Greig Woodman,Joel Faflak
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Author : Ross Greig Woodman,Joel Faflak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092137

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Revelation and Knowledge by Ross Greig Woodman,Joel Faflak Pdf

Ross Woodman and Joel Faflak focus on the clash in British Romantic poets' works between depth psychology and mysticism in the context of post-Enlightenment crises of belief.

Romanticism and Pleasure

T. Schmid
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Author : T. Schmid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230117471

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Romanticism and Pleasure by T. Schmid Pdf

In this text nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Anya Taylor, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work of figures such as Byron, Coleridge, and Austen.

A New Companion to The Gothic

David Punter
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Author : David Punter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444354935

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A New Companion to The Gothic by David Punter Pdf

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic

Romantic Psychoanalysis

Joel Faflak
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Author : Joel Faflak
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791472701

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Romantic Psychoanalysis by Joel Faflak Pdf

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

Gothic Metaphysics

Jodey Castricano
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Author : Jodey Castricano
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786837950

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Gothic Metaphysics by Jodey Castricano Pdf

Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space for a worldview familiar to certain mystical traditions – such as alchemy, which held to the view of a living cosmos yet later deemed ‘uncanny’ and anachronistic by Freud. In developing this idea, Gothic Metaphysics explores the influence of the Middle Ages on the emergence of Gothic, seeing it as an encrypted genre that serves as the site of a ‘live burial’ of ‘animism’, which has emerged in the notion of ‘quantum entanglement’ best described by Carl G. Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli in the theory of synchronicity linking alchemy with quantum mechanics. This relationship finds itself in dialogue with the Gothic’s long-held concern for the ‘sentience of space and place’, as described by renowned Gothic scholar Fredrick Frank. The volume Gothic Metaphysics is multi-valent and explores how Gothic has sustained the view of a sentient world despite the disqualification of nature – not only in respect to the extirpation of animism as a worldview, but also with regard to an affirmation of consciousness beyond that of human exceptionalism.

Reception of Northrop Frye

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508203

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Reception of Northrop Frye by Anonim Pdf

The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye's diminishing status as an important critical voice.

Disabling Romanticism

Michael Bradshaw
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Author : Michael Bradshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137460646

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Disabling Romanticism by Michael Bradshaw Pdf

This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience. It is the first collection of its kind, breaking new ground in re-interpreting key texts and providing a challenging overview of this emerging field. The collection offers both a critique of academic Romantic studies and an affirmation of the responsiveness of the Romantic canon to new stimuli. Authors discussed include William Blake, Lord Byron, Ann Batten Cristall, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Darley, Richard Payne Knight, William Gilpin, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth.