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The Sense and Sensibility of Madness
This volume explores the intriguing ontological ambiguities of madness in literature and the arts. Despite its association with a diseased/abnormal mind, there can be much sense and sensibility in madness. Daring to break free from the dictates of normalcy, madwomen and madmen disrupt the status quo. Yet, as they venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness. Contributors are Doreen Bauschke, Teresa Bell, Isil Ezgi Celik, Terri Jane Dow, Peter Gunn, Anna Klambauer, Rachel A. Sims and Ruxanda Topor.
Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness
‘Schizo’: The Liberatory Potential of Madness presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential of madness as a force for liberation from societies of control.
Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality
From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.
Zwischen Gartenbau und Gartenkunst: Gärtner und Gartengestalter in Wien und Umgebung 1918–1945
Vom Paradiesgarten der Hesperiden bis zum "Garten Eden": Die Menschen haben sich Parks und Gärten immer als utopische Gegenentwürfe zur Widersprüchlichkeit und Unvollkommenheit der Realität erträumt, als bukolische Traumgefilde, in denen der Wolf neben dem Lämmchen schläft und die Gesetze der Welt keine Gültigkeit haben. Die Geschichte zeigt jedoch: Nichts ist unpolitisch - auch nicht die Gärtner. So war der Gartenbau im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert immer auch ein Feld ideologischer Auseinandersetzungen, etwa im Rahmen der nationalsozialistischen Umgestaltung des Gartenbauwesens ab 1938. Doch auch schon 1918/19, also zwanzig Jahre vor dem sogenannten "Anschluss", wurde das österreichisc...
