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Crossmappings: Essays on Visual Culture

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783858817150
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover

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Traum & Trauma / Dream & Trauma: Werke Aus Der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen / Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783775720649
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Pub
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Softcover

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Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780231121774
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004

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Das Verortete Geschlecht: Literarische Raume Sexueller Und Kultureller Differenz

Elisabeth Bronfen; Petra Leutner; Ulrike Erichsen

ISBN: 9783893083589
Publisher: Attempto
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover

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Die Diva: Eine Geschichte Der Bewunderung

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783888143083
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Publication Date: 2002

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Leiko Ikemura: Ocean-A Project

Elisabeth Bronfen; Leiko Ikemura; Friedemann Malsch

ISBN: 9783775712026
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Pub
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover

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Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783888148095
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover

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The Insomnia Drawings

Elisabeth Bronfen; Marie-Laure Bernadac; Louise Bourgeois

ISBN: 9783908247388
Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover

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Dorothy Richardson's Art of Memory: Space, Identity, Text

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780719048081
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover

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Heimweh: Illusionsspiele in Hollywood

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783353011046
Publisher: Volk & Welt
Publication Date: 1999

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Sylvia Plath

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780746308240
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover

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The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780691012315
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover

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 critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent. Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot, and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself. Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offersfresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel -- a knotted originary wound common to both genders -- facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1998

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Hysterisierungen

Elisabeth Bronfen; Gerd Kimmerle; Lilli Gast

ISBN: 9783892956495
Publisher: Edition Diskord
Publication Date: 1998

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Cindy Sherman, Photoarbeiten 1975-1995

Elisabeth Bronfen; Cindy Sherman; Zdenek Felix; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Martin Schwander; Ulf Erdmann Ziegler; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Malmo konsthall

ISBN: 9783888147524
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Publication Date: 1995

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Genus: Zur Geschlechterdifferenz in Den Kulturwissenschaften

Elisabeth Bronfen; Hadumod Bussmann; Renate Hof

ISBN: 9783520492012
Publisher: Alfred Kroner
Publication Date: 1995

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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9780415906616
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Softcover

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1992

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Der Literarische Raum: Eine Untersuchung Am Beispiel Von Dorothy M. Richardsons Romanzyklus Pilgrimage

Elisabeth Bronfen

ISBN: 9783484450257
Publisher: M. Niemeyer
Publication Date: 1986

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