Other stories include Balzac's 'The Red Inn,' in which a crime is committed by one person in thought and another in deed, and MГ©rimГ©e's superbly crafted mystery, 'The Venus of Ille,' which dramatizes the demonic power of a vengeful goddess of love emerging out of the pagan past. The anthology opens with 'Smarra, or the Demons of the Night,' Nodier's 1821 tale of nightmare, vampirism, and compulsion, acclaimed as the first work in French literature to explore in depth the realm of dream and the unconscious. With its aura of the uncanny and the supernatural, the fantastic tale is a vehicle for exploring forbidden themes and the dark, irrational side of the human psyche. Hoffman some of the most memorable stories in the genre. Featuring such authors as Balzac, MГ©rimГ©e, Dumas, Verne, and Maupassant, this book offers readers familiar with the works of Edgar Allan Poe and E. Expand DescriptionДЄ Certain Amount of Madness: The Life Politics and Legacies of Thomas SankaraДemons of the Night is a trove of haunting fiction-a gathering, for the first time in English, of the best nineteenth-century French fantastic tales. Arthur Conan Doyle, вЂњThe Story of SwedenborgвЂќДЄlso included are a preface by Stephen McNeilly, a chronology of Swedenborg, biographies of the essay subjects, and an index.Gary Lachman, вЂњSpace: the Final Frontier.Richard Lines, вЂњEros and the Unknown Victorian: Coventry Patmore and SwedenborgвЂќ.Adelheid Kegler, вЂњElements of Swedenborgian Thought in Symbolist Landscapes: with reference to Sheridan Le Fanu and George MacDonaldвЂќ.Gary Lachman, вЂњThe Spiritual Detective: How Baudelaire invented Symbolism, by way of Swedenborg, E.Yeats, вЂњSwedenborg, Mediums and the Desolate PlacesвЂќ This volume, the fourth in the Journal of the Swedenborg Society series, contains the following six essays: The volume closes with an essay by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who views Swedenborg as a founding figure for the Spiritualist circles he himself advocated. The collection also studies SwedenborgвЂ™s role in the birth and rise of the Symbolist movement and his influence upon Victorian poetry. The collection opens with a seminal essay by William Butler Yeats, a lyrical and critical masterpiece in which the Nobel Prize-winning poet reveals his breadth of lifelong philosophical and theosophical interests, framing them around the significant influence of Swedenborg. Library of Congress BX8748.B49 2005В |В Dewey DecimalВ 289.4092Д«etween Method and Madness: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature addresses the question of Emanuel SwedenborgвЂ™s (1688вЂ“1772) influence on literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Expand DescriptionД«etween Method and Madness: Essays on Swedenborg and Literature Exploring the therapeutic dynamics of diagnosis, persuasion, healing, and failure in Greek psychiatry, Davis traces the terrains of truth, culture, and freedom that emerge from this questioning of the state at the borders of Europe. Planned, funded, and overseen largely by the European Union, this 'democratic experiment,' one of many reforms adopted by Greece since its accession to the EU in the early 1980s, has led Greek citizens to question the state and its administration of human rights, social welfare, and education. Davis documents these patients' singular experience of community, and their ambivalent aspirations to health, as they grappled with new forms of autonomy and dependency introduced by psychiatric reform. Challenged to help care for themselves, patients struggled to function in communities that often seemed as much sources of mental pathology as sites of refuge. Elizabeth Anne Davis examines responsibility in this rural region through the lens of national psychiatric reform, a process designed to shift treatment from custodial hospitals to outpatient settings. Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Greece.

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