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Literature And Psychoanalysis, Alyssa Yankwitt, Elisabeth Von Uhl
Literature And Psychoanalysis, Alyssa Yankwitt, Elisabeth Von Uhl
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This is the syllabus and schedule for CCNY's FIQWS course Literature and Psychoanalysis.
The Leap And The Gap: Writing Suicide In Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
The Leap And The Gap: Writing Suicide In Modernist Britain, Aaron Botwick
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Suicide is integral to the history of British literature, and yet the subject has yielded scant scholarly attention. This study attempts to partially rectify the absence by identifying a transformation in English suicide discourse between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I argue that, informed by both rationalism and cause-and-effect reasoning, Victorian literature—including poems, triple-decker novels, broadsheets, and sermons—largely conceived of suicide as a public phenomenon. The action, rather than the actor, is the object of study, and as a result what Andrew Bennett calls “the phenomenology, the lived experience … of suicide” is abandoned in favor of social …