Add to ORKGThis dissertation examines the woman\u27s part in dramatic representation as a hysterical construct and explores the hystericizing effect that the playing of this construct has on the actress. Drawing on feminist psychoanalytic analyses of male psychology and on the historical origins of male-invented female hysteria, this study uses dramatic representation as a model and metaphor for woman\u27s hystericization in Western culture. Charcot\u27s theatricalization of female hysteria through public performances of hysterical acts and the Ophelia as psychological/aesthetic model in British mental asylums are investigated as metaphorical sources for a new definition of female hysteria as a disease of performance, of acting. Case studies of Eleono...
The following article proposes a case study of Eschil's character, Hypermnestra from The Danaids tri...
The character Ophelia, from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is an iconographic symbol and cultural emb...
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike ...
This dissertation examines the woman\u27s part in dramatic representation as a hysterical construct ...
This work asks the question, primarily: what kind of performance is the hysterical attack? And what ...
This thesis centres on the twin discourses of hysteria and theatre, and contends that an examinatio...
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well ...
Hysteria or female madness occurs mostly in women. It happens because according to research the heal...
Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist...
This dissertation discusses the operatic mad scene of Ophelia (or, Ophélie) in Michel Carré, Jules B...
Hysteria is a quite common phenomenon that prevailed in the twentieth century literature, as such, f...
In this thesis I will explore the literary tradition of women and hysteria as a smaller facet of the...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
In the sense that women have been hystericized by male theories about femininity, Freudian psychoana...
This thesis explores the ways that sexual violence becomes perceptible through the body. While we ar...
The following article proposes a case study of Eschil's character, Hypermnestra from The Danaids tri...
The character Ophelia, from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is an iconographic symbol and cultural emb...
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike ...
This dissertation examines the woman\u27s part in dramatic representation as a hysterical construct ...
This work asks the question, primarily: what kind of performance is the hysterical attack? And what ...
This thesis centres on the twin discourses of hysteria and theatre, and contends that an examinatio...
"We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well ...
Hysteria or female madness occurs mostly in women. It happens because according to research the heal...
Academic interest in hysteria has burgeoned in recent decades. The topic has been probed by feminist...
This dissertation discusses the operatic mad scene of Ophelia (or, Ophélie) in Michel Carré, Jules B...
Hysteria is a quite common phenomenon that prevailed in the twentieth century literature, as such, f...
In this thesis I will explore the literary tradition of women and hysteria as a smaller facet of the...
From the mad heroines of classic Victorian literature to the depictions of female insanity in modern...
In the sense that women have been hystericized by male theories about femininity, Freudian psychoana...
This thesis explores the ways that sexual violence becomes perceptible through the body. While we ar...
The following article proposes a case study of Eschil's character, Hypermnestra from The Danaids tri...
The character Ophelia, from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is an iconographic symbol and cultural emb...
"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike ...