Anna Katharina Schaffner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1357421 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anna Katharina Schaffner |
| PRENOMES | Anna Katharina |
| SOBRENOME | Schaffner |
| ASSINATURA | SCHAFFNER A K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Exhausted
Towards a Tentative Typology of the Literary Refusenik
Literary history teems with refusenik figures who, in one way or another, and for one reason or another, ‘prefer not to’ partake in many of society's most sacrosanct pursuits and who therefore rebel against fundamental social values, for the most part passively. Yet there is arguably only one pure refusenik in literary history; that is, a figure who is defined by nothing but his act of radical refusal, uncontaminated by any active and positive de…
Exhaustion
Exhaustion
This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
Exhaustion and the Pathologization of Modernity
Visions of Sadistic Women
Invested with both fear and longing, the figure of the sadistic woman is always double. At once castrating executor of the death‐wish and object of desire, perverter of the ‘natural’ order and a necessary agent in the male sexual imagination, she embodies the ambiguous attitudes towards female sexuality that precipitated the crisis in modern conceptions of gender. This essay explores three paradigmatic literary representations of sadistic women i…
Fiction as Evidence
Research Article| June 01 2011 Fiction as Evidence:On the Uses of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Sexological Discourse Anna Katharina Schaffner Anna Katharina Schaffner University of Kent Anna Katharina Schaffner teaches comparative literature at the University of Kent, where she is codirector of the Centre for Modern European Literature. She works on the literature of transgression, both from a linguistic/stylistic and a thematic point of view…
Visions of Sadistic Women
Invested with both fear and longing, the figure of the sadistic woman is always double. At once castrating executor of the death‐wish and object of desire, perverter of the ‘natural’ order and a necessary agent in the male sexual imagination, she embodies the ambiguous attitudes towards female sexuality that precipitated the crisis in modern conceptions of gender. This essay explores three paradigmatic literary representations of sadistic women i…
Fiction as Evidence
Research Article| June 01 2011 Fiction as Evidence:On the Uses of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Sexological Discourse Anna Katharina Schaffner Anna Katharina Schaffner University of Kent Anna Katharina Schaffner teaches comparative literature at the University of Kent, where she is codirector of the Centre for Modern European Literature. She works on the literature of transgression, both from a linguistic/stylistic and a thematic point of view…
Fiction as Evidence
Research Article| June 01 2011 Fiction as Evidence:On the Uses of Literature in Nineteenth-Century Sexological Discourse Anna Katharina Schaffner Anna Katharina Schaffner University of Kent Anna Katharina Schaffner teaches comparative literature at the University of Kent, where she is codirector of the Centre for Modern European Literature. She works on the literature of transgression, both from a linguistic/stylistic and a thematic point of view…
Visions of Sadistic Women
Invested with both fear and longing, the figure of the sadistic woman is always double. At once castrating executor of the death‐wish and object of desire, perverter of the ‘natural’ order and a necessary agent in the male sexual imagination, she embodies the ambiguous attitudes towards female sexuality that precipitated the crisis in modern conceptions of gender. This essay explores three paradigmatic literary representations of sadistic women i…
Exhaustion
Exhaustion
This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.
Exhaustion and the Pathologization of Modernity
Towards a Tentative Typology of the Literary Refusenik
Literary history teems with refusenik figures who, in one way or another, and for one reason or another, ‘prefer not to’ partake in many of society's most sacrosanct pursuits and who therefore rebel against fundamental social values, for the most part passively. Yet there is arguably only one pure refusenik in literary history; that is, a figure who is defined by nothing but his act of radical refusal, uncontaminated by any active and positive de…
Exhausted
Psychology (5 obras) · Art (3 obras) · German Literature and Culture Studies (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Psychoanalysis (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Fatigue (2 obras)