Idioms of distress : psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature /

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"This interdisciplinary study examines the enigmatic category of psychosomatic disorders as articulated in medical writings and represented in literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Six key works are analyzed: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Emile Zola's Therese Raq...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Furst, Lilian R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Medicine, Psychosomatic.
Literature and mental illness.
Imagination in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Psychophysiologic Disorders
Psychosomatic Medicine
Medicine in Literature
Médecine psychosomatique.
Littérature et maladies mentales.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
Medicine in literature
Diseases in literature
Imagination in literature
Literature and mental illness
Medicine, Psychosomatic
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Hiding and Seeking Distress
  • 1. Speaking through the Body
  • 2. Swings of the Historical Pendulum
  • 3. Mysterious Leap
  • 4. Literary Patients
  • Metaphors of Distress
  • 5. "A Strange Sympathy betwixt Soul and Body": Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
  • 6. Nerves: At the Interstices of Physiology and Psychology: Emile Zola, Therese Raquin (1867)
  • 7. "A Sick Spot on the Body of our Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1900)
  • 8. "Legs Turned to Butter": Arthur Miller, Broken Glass (1994)
  • 9. Substance and Shadow: Brian O'Doherty, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P. (1992)
  • 10. Shell Shock: Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991)
  • 11. Outing the Distress.

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