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The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents
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Full Title:
The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents
Contributors:
By (Author) Elisabeth Bronfen
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
616.8524
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
490
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
680g
Description
Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of
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Honorable Mention for the 1999 Barbara Perkins and Geroge Perkins Award of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
