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" Idioms of distress : "
by Lilian R. Furst
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BL
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585606
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GBA308223b414825
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| Main Entry
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Furst, Lilian R
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Idioms of distress : : psychosomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature /\ by Lilian R. Furst
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xiv, 225 pages ;; 23 cm
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0791455572
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: 9780791455579
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: 0791455580
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: 9780791455586
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index
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| Contents
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Speaking through the Body -- Swings of the Historical Pendulum -- The Mysterious Leap -- Literary Patients -- Metaphors of Distress -- "A Strange Sympathy betwixt Soul and Body": Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) -- Nerves: At the Interstices of Physiology and Psychology: Emile Zola, Therese Raquin (1867) -- "A Sick Spot on the Body of our Family": Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1900) -- "Legs Turned to Butter": Arthur Miller, Broken Glass (1994) -- Substance and Shadow: Brian O'Doherty, The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P (1992) -- Shell Shock: Pat Barker, Regeneration (1991) -- Outing the Distress
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| Abstract
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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 Raquin, Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, Brian O'Doherty's The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P., and Pat Barker's Regeneration. Each is a case study in detection as the hidden sources of bodily ills are uncovered in intra- or interpersonal conflicts such as guilt, family tensions, and marital discord. The book fosters a better understanding of these puzzling disorders by revealing how they function simultaneously as masks and as manifestations of inner suffering."--Jacket
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Medicine, Psychosomatic
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Literature and mental illness
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Imagination in literature
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Diseases in literature
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Psychophysiologic Disorders
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Psychosomatic Medicine
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Medicine in Literature
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| Dewey Classification
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616.08
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RC49.F87 2003
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2002 N-926
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WM 90F991i 2003
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