Decadent Genealogies

Decadent Genealogies
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781501723315
ISBN-13 : 1501723316
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Book Synopsis Decadent Genealogies by : Barbara Spackman

Download or read book Decadent Genealogies written by Barbara Spackman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.


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