Overview
- Brings together some of the leading scholars working in the field today, including Elisabeth Bronfen, Hélène Cixous, and Anna Furse
- Examines the cultural relevance of the representation of hysteria in contemporary media
- Analyzes hysteria as a cultural phenomenon in historical context and as an analytical concept from a variety of disciplines
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Hysteria is alive and well in our present time and is apparently spreading contagiously: especially the second decade of the twenty-first century has displayed an ever-increasing interest in the term. A quick Google search opens the gates to sheer endless swathes of discussions on hysteria, covering almost every aspect of public discourses. The arts—as it is often in such cases—seem conspicuously involved in and engaged with this hysterical discourse. Surprisingly, while the strong academic interest in hysteria throughout the twentieth century and most prominently at the turn of the century is well known and much discussed, the study of how these discourses have continued well into twenty-first-century art practices, is largely pressing on a blind spot. It is the aim of this volume to illustrate how hysteria was already well established within the arts alongside and at times even separately from the much-covered medical studies, and reveal how those current artistic practices very much continue a century spanning cross-fertilization between hysteria and the arts.
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—Professor Valerie Walkerdine, Cardiff University, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hysterical Methodologies in the Arts
Book Subtitle: Rising in Revolt
Editors: Johanna Braun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66360-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66359-9Published: 19 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66362-9Published: 20 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66360-5Published: 18 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Theory, Culture and Gender, Popular Culture , Cultural Studies, Queer Theory