Cures for Modernity : Medicine in Interwar Russian and Czech Literature and Cinema Paperback / softback
by Julia Sutton-Mattocks
Part of the Cultural History & Literary Imagination series
Paperback / softback
Description
Surgery, bacteriology, psychiatry … medicine fascinated writers and filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s.
But why did medicine capture the creative imagination at precisely that moment, and what does the prevalence of medical imagery in works of the period tell us about interwar culture?
These are the questions at the heart of this book, which takes the Russian and Czech literary and cinematic contexts as case studies for interrogating the wider phenomenon. Contributing to an emerging body of scholarship bringing the Medical Humanities and Slavonic Studies into dialogue, the book focuses on four particularly prevalent medical themes in the literature and cinema of the period: syphilis, nervous illness, surgery and childbirth.
It offers new perspectives on works by well-known figures of interwar Russian and Czech culture (e.g.
Mikhail Bulgakov, Evgenii Zamiatin, Gustav Machatý and Vladislav VanÄura) as well as familiarizing readers with more obscure works by some of their lesser-known counterparts, such as VladimÃr Raffel, Vikentii Veresaev, Nikolai Aseev and Noi Galkin.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:318 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:26/09/2023
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- ISBN:9781800792937
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:318 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:26/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781800792937
