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  1. Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
    Medicine and Literature 1880-1933
    Author: Rütten, Thomas
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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  2. Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
    Medicine and Literature 1880-1933
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

    Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav MeyrinkLiving with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930; Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch;... more

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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Aweysha: Spiritual Epidemics and Psychic Contagion in the Works of Gustav MeyrinkLiving with Rats and Mosquitoes: Different Paradigms of Cohabitation with Parasites in a German Narrative of Contagion around 1930; Infectious Diseases in Max Frisch; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names and Works. Table of Contents; Introduction; 'Social Contagionism': Psychology, Criminology and Sociology in the Slipstream of Infection; The Overlap of Discourses of Contagion: Economic, Sexual, and Psychological; Exoticism, Bacteriology and the Staging of the Dangerous; Rousing Emotions in the Description of Contagious Diseases in Modernism; Anarchist and Aphrodite: On the Literary History of Germs; " ... an entirely new form of bacteria for them": Contagionism and its Consequences in Laßwitz and Wells; Genius and Degenerate? Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and a Medical Discourse on Syphilis. Understanding how 'contagion' and 'infection' have become powerful metaphors requires a historical reconstruction of this semantic field in the late 19th and early 20th century, when these concepts acquired a scientific meaning. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the cultural history of contagionism between medical bacteriology, the social sciences and literary adaptations. The symbolic implications of 'contagion' and high-profile contagious diseases are addressed, which mark the boundaries between sick and healthy, familiar and alien, morally pure and impure

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3110306115; 9783110306118
    Series: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; Band 38
    Subjects: Contagion (Social psychology); Communicable diseases in literature; Literature and medicine; Communicable diseases in literature; Literature and medicine; Contagion (Social psychology); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Communicable diseases in literature; Contagion (Social psychology); Literature and medicine
    Scope: Online Ressource (1 online resource (pages cm)
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  3. Contagionism and Contagious Diseases
    Medicine and Literature 1880-1933
    Contributor: Rütten, Thomas (Herausgeber); King, Martina (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Rütten, Thomas (Herausgeber); King, Martina (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110306118; 3110306115
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    9783110306118
    Series: spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature ; 38
    Subjects: Infektionskrankheit <Motiv>; Infektion <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (BISAC Subject Heading)MED039000; (BISAC Subject Heading)LIT000000: LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Bakteriologie; Contagionism; bacteriology; literary Modernism; illness narratives; medical metaphors; Krankheitsnarrative; Metaphern, medizinische; Literarische Moderne; EBK: eBook; Ansteckung; (VLB-WN)9559
    Scope: Online-Ressource, 10 Illustrationen
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