Decadent genealogies : the rhetoric of sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

Decadent genealogies : the rhetoric of sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio / Barbara Spackman.

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: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [1989]
Subjects:
1800-1999
Decadence (Literary movement)
Decadence in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature > Psychology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Decadence in literature
Literature, Modern
Literature > Psychology
Mental illness in literature
Letterkunde.
Decadentie.
Geestelijke crises.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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