Author: Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: subject, knotted
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 069101230X
ISBN-13: 9780691012308

Surrealist writer André 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 cr

Author: Elisabeth Bronfen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: dead, over
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0719038278
ISBN-13: 9780719038273

The argument that this book presents is that narrative and visual representations of death can be read as symptoms of our culture and because the feminine body is culturally constructed as the superlative site of "other" and "not me", culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Authors:Elisabeth Bronfen, Misha Kavka,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: consequences, feminist
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0231117051
ISBN-13: 9780231117050

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women. These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, l

Authors:Elisabeth Bronfen, Misha Kavka,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: consequences, feminist
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0231117043
ISBN-13: 9780231117043

Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging body of feminist theory written by women. These writings address the question "Where are we going?" as well as "Where have we come from?" As evidenced in the essays compiled here, the multiplicity of directions available to this new feminism ranges from poststructuralist academic theory through cultural activism to re-readings of law, l

Authors:Elisabeth Stark, Elisabeth Leiss, Werner Abraham,
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: studies, language, companion, series, emergence, historical, determination, typology, context, constraints, nominal
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2007-08-23
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 9027230994
ISBN-13: 9789027230997

Authors:Elisabeth Kraus, Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer,
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: north, american, literature, culture, studies, european, america, usa, popular, media, simulacrum
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1999-12-27
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571131876
ISBN-13: 9781571131874

This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as ’truth’ or ’reality’ have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of ’the real’ is always mediated through an ’empire of signs,’ as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the t

Authors:Elisabeth Nemeth, Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmit
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: circle, institute, yearbook, vienna, context, neuraths, economics, otto
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-06-02
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402069049
ISBN-13: 9781402069048

Otto Neurath (1882-1945) was a highly unorthodox thinker both in philosophy and economics. He proposed a radically expanded scope of economic analysis that would facilitate a comparative and systematic study of the impact of a great variety of economic and political measures on a population s well-being. Neurath regarded the controversial and widely misunderstood concept of calculation in kind as an indispensable instrument for anyone (economist or politician) who sought to analyze economic relationships from a wider perspective than that of price formation under market conditions. What is the