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Pappas, Robin Brooke.

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Varieties of consciousness: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Varieties of consciousness: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states./
Author:	Pappas, Robin Brooke.
Description:	277 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4042.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3113022

Varieties of consciousness: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states.
Pappas, Robin Brooke.

Varieties of consciousness: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4042.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.

This dissertation interrogates the rhetorical and figurative strategies animating the construction of a pathological model for understanding altered states of consciousness. Comprised of detailed readings of poetic and medical texts from four consecutive, intertextual moments during the professionalization of psychology, neurology, and psychiatry, the study explores the struggle for rhetorical authority in poets and physicians to explain mind-body phenomena produced by drug use, sexual ecstasy, and poetic inspiration. Through an investigation of popular articles about hashish and poetic inspiration by poets Théophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire, texts about drug use and mental illness by alienists Jacques-Joseph Moreau and Alexandre Brierre de Boismont, medical monographs about peyote intoxication by neurologist S. Weir Mitchell and sexologist Havelock Ellis, and poetic representations of sexual ecstasy and (re)productive creativity by modernist poets Mina Loy and H.D., I also analyze textual strategies in terms of the sexual politics exposed by the figural ambivalence embedded in the texts. As the dissertation demonstrates, this politics has fundamentally altered or formed research into extraordinary experience and consciousness more broadly. I thus examine literary and rhetorical figures at play in poetic and medical texts about sexual excitement, intoxication, poetic composition, and mental illness to demonstrate the ideological function of alterity in discussions of extraordinary experience.Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Varieties of consciousness: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states.
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520 $a In this study of poetic and medical texts about altered states of consciousness, I trace the evolution of strategies to assemble models of mind and body within the discursive constraints of increasing disciplinary specialization. As I show, the categorical field of mental science emerges from practices of textual analysis that rearticulate extraordinary experiences in terms of illness. However, because that analysis includes common rhetorical figures in addition to examples of altered states from contemporary and ancient poetry, physicians undermine the antitheses they attempt to establish between normal and pathological perception, thought, and behavior. In addition to producing slippages in meaning, the study shows how these same rhetorical strategies extend categories of pathology to include “woman” as a fundamental category of biologically- and socially-determined illness. Indeed, the study argues that women and drugs are pathologized in kindred ways.
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