Hystories
Title | Hystories PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Hysteria |
ISBN | 9780231104593 |
Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times.
Hystories
Title | Hystories PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine Showalter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231104586 |
On psychopathology of everyday life
Trauma and Life Stories
Title | Trauma and Life Stories PDF eBook |
Author | With Graham Dawson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2002-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134623739 |
In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
Trauma
Title | Trauma PDF eBook |
Author | Selma Leydesdorff |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1351301187 |
Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence. In Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.International case studies include the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the life stories of Guatemalan war widows, violence in South Africa, persecution of political prisoners in South Africa and the former Czechoslovakia, lynching in the Mississippi Delta, resistance in Zimbabwe's liberation war, sexual abuse, and the ongoing Irish troubles. The volume reveals the complexity of remembering and forgetting traumatic experiences, and shows that survivors are likely to express themselves in stories containing elements that are imaginary, fragmented, and loaded with symbolism. Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors is a groundbreaking work of relevance across the social sciences. This new perspective on trauma will be of particular importance to researchers in psychology, history, women's studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
Popular Trauma Culture
Title | Popular Trauma Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Rothe |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2011-09-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0813552206 |
In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure—characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetrator—and that it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of pain and suffering in the mass media. The book begins with an analysis of Holocaust clichés, including its political appropriation, the notion of vicarious victimhood, the so-called victim talk rhetoric, and the infusion of the composite survivor figure with Social Darwinism. Readers then explore the embodiment of popular trauma culture in two core mass media genres: daytime TV talk shows and misery memoirs. Rothe conveys how victimhood and suffering are cast as trauma kitsch on talk shows like Oprah and as trauma camp on modern-day freak shows like Springer. The discussion also encompasses the first scholarly analysis of misery memoirs, the popular literary genre that has been widely critiqued in journalism as pornographic depictions of extreme violence. Currently considered the largest growth sector in book publishing worldwide, many of these works are also fabricated. And since forgeries reflect the cultural entities that are most revered, the book concludes with an examination of fake misery memoirs.
The Uses of History in Early Modern England
Title | The Uses of History in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Paulina Kewes |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780873282192 |
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Shakespeare's History
Title | Shakespeare's History PDF eBook |
Author | Lily B Campbell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1136566295 |
First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964. Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy. Just as there is in Shakespearean tragedies a dominant ethical pattern of passion opposed to reason, so there is in the history plays a dominant political pattern characteristic of the political philosophy of the age. From the 'troublesome reign' of King John to the 'tragical doings' of Richard III, Shakespeare wove the events of English history into plots of universal interest.