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Sander L. Gilman

Auteur de Oscar Wilde's London

52+ oeuvres 1,011 utilisateurs 6 critiques 1 Favoris

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Sander L. Gilman is a prolific author of books on subjects ranging from Sigmund Freud to obesity. He is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of psychiatry at Emory University.

Œuvres de Sander L. Gilman

Oscar Wilde's London (1987) — Auteur — 76 exemplaires
Making the Body Beautiful (1999) 52 exemplaires
Freud, Race, and Gender (1993) 44 exemplaires
The Jew's Body (1991) 39 exemplaires
Seeing the Insane (1982) 38 exemplaires
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity (2008) 29 exemplaires
Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (2004) 23 exemplaires
Hysteria Beyond Freud (1993) 21 exemplaires
Fat Boys: A Slim Book (2004) 21 exemplaires
Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient (1995) 18 exemplaires
Reading Freud's Reading (1993) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Psychological Writings and Letters: Sigmund Freud (German Library) (1995) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
Jews in Today's German Culture (1993) 9 exemplaires
Sexuality: An Illustrated History (1989) 9 exemplaires
Multiculturalism and the Jews (2006) 8 exemplaires
Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis (1991) 8 exemplaires
To Be Seen: Queer Lives 1900–1950 (2023) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory (1982) 7 exemplaires
Race in Contemporary Medicine (2007) 6 exemplaires

Oeuvres associées

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (1656) — Text; Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
Constructing Masculinity (1995) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language (1989) — Directeur de publication — 20 exemplaires
The Return of Thematic Criticism (1993) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
Haut ab!: Haltungen zur rituellen Beschneidung (2014) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Blood: Reflections on what unites and divides us (2015) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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Nom canonique
Gilman, Sander L.
Autres noms
Gilman, Sander
Date de naissance
1944-02-21
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Pays (pour la carte)
USA
Lieu de naissance
Buffalo, New York, USA
Lieux de résidence
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Études
Tulane University (BA|1963|MA|Ph.D|1968)
Professions
professor
cultural historian
historian of medicine
Organisations
Emory University
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Chicago
Cornell University
Modern Language Association
Prix et distinctions
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
Courte biographie
A literary and cultural historian, Sander Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and the author or editor of over eighty books. His Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity appeared in 2008; his most recent edited volume, Race and Contemporary Medicine: Biological Facts and Fictions, was published in the same year. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane. 

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Gilman's collection of essays provides some crucial context and history for the way that stereotypes have been transmitted particularly in medical discourse.
 
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b.masonjudy | Mar 21, 2021 |
In this contribution to the Critical Lives series, Sander Gilman explores the life and writings of Franz Kafka. Chapter 1 ("My Family and My Body as a Curse) explores Kafka's life, including his family and on his identity as a (German- speaking) Jew in central Europe during the late 1800s through 1920. Kafka's written record is explored in Ch.2 ("Writing"), in which the author considers his fiction and correspondence through a psychoanalytic lens, and (again) in terms of Kafka's Jewish identity. Chapter 3, "A Life Ill" focuses on his later life, including the role played by his long-term illness with tuberculosis. Ch. 4, "A Life After Life" considers his literary legacy, including the massive Kafkaology industry that sprang up around his work. (He quotes Hanna Arendt: "Though during his lifetime he could not make a decent living, he will now keep generations of intellectuals both gainfully employed and well- fed."

Despite having read much about Kafka, I found several little nuggets of intriguing information in this work (notes below). However, the continued focus of Jewishness and "the body" seems somewhat labored/ artificial. In fact, a quote from the author (in specific reference to "The Judgment") applies to his own work: "it has always been possible to read the tale in many ways, filling in the cultural references based on those approved by the interpretive community in which one found oneself." Likewise, the author makes assertions about what Kafka and members of his family were feeling and thinking, without corroborative evidence. Further, he presents as factual the story that he (unknowingly) fathered a child with Grete Bloch =-- a story rebutted in Reiner Stach's major biography.

Overall, this short (160 page) book offers a semi-useful introduction to the life and work of Franz Kafka. However, I would recommend other works above this one, including Ritchie Robertson's "Kafka: A Very Short Introduction" (of the Very Short Introduction series).
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Among the nuggets of miscellaneous information that appealed to me were the following:

Gilman reproduces an extended quote from Vladimir Nabokov (who was an entomologist well as a novelist), who argued that from Kafka's description, Gregor Samsa was no cockroach, but rather, a winged beetle, who had not discovered that he had wings -- wings to escape with!.

Orson Welles (who produced a film version of "The Trial") opines that Kafka "is a good writer... but not the extraordinary genius that people see in him" (a view with which I am inclined to agree).

Jews of South Africa (I was interested to learn) were not classified as "white" until the 20th century when they became an economically successful minority. Europeans were defined by the alphabet of their language; therefore, Hebrews (who spoke in Yiddish and used a different alphabet) were classified as "coloured".
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danielx | Feb 5, 2019 |
Dr. Hugh Diamond's innovative work with photography early in its history pointed to both artistic and practical uses. And, because accuracy of visual recording is one of the medium's prime characteristics, it also explores the question of what can we know from what we seen in detailed photography of a person. For his work with inmates in a lunatic asylum, Diamond explored the use of photography in three ways: as a way to study the mentally ill, as a way to communicate to the mentally ill about their condition, and to identify particular individuals who might go in and out of treatment. This is the 1850's, leading to continuing use of photography as a psychiatric tool.

The extent to which we can ascertain internal and emotional states from external likeness, from portraiture, has been a central question through the history of photographic discussion. There is more to be gained for an answer in considering such work as Diamond's and its extension to many other scientific studies, outside the normal attention of photography and is typical critics.
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j-b-colson | Sep 26, 2012 |
Is there any limit to how much better we want to feel and look: should there be.
 
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mdstarr | 1 autre critique | Sep 11, 2011 |

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