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Howard Nemerov, Laconic Laureate; The Nation's New Chief Poet And the Nature of His Verse
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Howard Nemerov's voice is deep and oddly muffled, as if it has
rolled around somewhere inside him-half silent speculation, half
self-effacing laugh-before tumbling out into the world.
"I'm sort of a combination emcee and doorman," the nation's
newest poet laureate says, his mouth bent in the near-smile of the
perpetually ironic. "Maybe I'll have a uniform made."
Something with epaulets, perhaps, and a medal in the shape of a
quill pen. Something, in short, suitable for any honored personage
imported to fill a vaguely defined position. Robert Penn Warren,
Richard Wilbur and now Howard ...
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Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...generated as much scholarly interest as hysteria. At first glance it is not easy to...In fact, some physicians argue that hysteria, like smallpox, has disappeared. Some scholars insist that hysteria was simply a diagnostic label that was...
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Disguised hysteria in a child psychosis?
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy
; ...whether the psychosis was not just a disguise of hysteria. At the present time hysteria is rarely given as diagnosis for a mental disorder...3 and its respective interpretations cause hysteria to disappear? Or was it the psychoanalytic sexual...
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Books: Male hysteria from Don Juan to Loaded Lad Hysteria, once explained by theories of vapours and wandering wombs, can shed light on war crimes, homophobia and the postmodern condition.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...ALLEN LANE pounds 18.99 A touch of hysteria can make you a real hit with the ladies...Take Robert Connolly, treated for hysteria in 1876. He suffered from an unfortunate...1997 book Hystories as an example of how hysteria is a response to a situation that is...
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Ill but manly: male hysteria in late nineteenth-century medical discourse.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...contests the accepted view that male hysteria has always been an illness that feminizes...befalls only feminine men. Nonetheless, hysteria is always a gendered construct. Focusing...Martin Charcot, Kavka argues that male hysteria as a discursive construct reinforced...
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Impotence and Excess: Male Hysteria and Androgyny in Flaubert's Salammbo.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...current, interdisciplinary studies on hysteria much attention has been given to the...have explored how the circulation of the hysteria concept in diverse discursive fields...often ignored but puzzling concept of hysteria as a male malady. Mark S. Micale...
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A New Hystery: History and Hysteria in Toni Morrison's Beloved.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature
; ...employing French feminist ideas about hysteria, I will argue that Beloved explores...repossession of the past, I propose that, like hysteria, Morrison's novel highlights the importance...Freudian and French feminist theories of hysteria in significant ways. In Studies on Hysteria...
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Books: The forgotten malady lingers on `Hysteria' used to afflict silly women. When men suffered too, it vanished. Now the illness has returned, says Darian Leader
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...s new book is about one of them, the hysteria that was once the darling of Freud and...fits and swellings that helped to give hysteria its reputation as both theatre and a...literature, most commentators agree that hysteria has in fact taken new forms, ranging...
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Probing Pictures: Carol Armstrong on Georges Didi-Huberman.(Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography...as I set about reading Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography...look more at length at Invention of Hysteria as a book about photography as much...
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To Outdo or Undo? Siblings and Hysteria
Magazine article from: Studies in Gender and Sexuality
; ...configurations are highly related to hysteria. Parents with hysterical conflicts...understandings of the etiology of hysteria powerfully join with recent conceptualizations relating siblings with hysteria (J. Mitchell, 2000b, 2003) in...
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Mass hysteria? Blame it on stress, anxiety and spirits
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...New Straits Times 03-29-2007 Mass hysteria? Blame it on stress, anxiety and spirits...supernatural. These are cited as causes of mass hysteria. Hospital Bahagia Tanjung Rambutan director...consultant psychiatrist Dr Suarn Singh said hysteria was caused by dissociation. Dissociation...
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