Madness and Difference: Politicizing Insanity in Classical Literary Works

Madness and morals. Ideas on insanity in the nineteenth century

Witnessing insanity: madness and mad-doctors in the English court

In his Trial by medicine (1981) Roger Smith gave a magisterial account of the history of forensic psychiatry in the late-nineteenth century, mainly focusing on insanity pleas in the murder trials that took place after the McNaughton Rules of 1843. Smith's basic picture is that of a titanic battle of ideas between law and psychiatry, between the two incommensurable concepts about human agency. W...

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

Revels in madness: insanity in medicine and literature

orientation in the late 1860s and 1870s, prior to the ascendancy of bacteriology; this helps account for the fact that four of his seven chapters focus on these early years, which other scholars have found less dramatic than the golden etiological age of the eighties and nineties. If the quest for knowability and demonstrability was crucial to the new understanding of disease, however (and it w...

Literary Aspects in New Media Art Works

In her article "Literary Aspects in New Media Art Works" examples of new media literature in the works of While Železnikar is primarily a net interventions, the literary segments in uses them to initiate a happening. works which require a readerly perception flavor of such works which can later offer works of art. > ISSN 1481-4374 <http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Purdue University Press , the...