Women of Letters. A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim

Both the literary program of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and his personal letters dating from the year of the work's composition are suffused with the rhetoric of illness, detailing a maladie morale characterized by melancholy, nervous "exultation," black presentiments, and a malignant idee fixe.. Often mistakenly identified as a term new to the 1830s, the idee fixe has a considerably longer history, dating from the first decade of the nineteenth century when it appeared in the writings of French psychiatrists Etienne Esquirol and Jean-Etienne Georget. Both Esquirol's early writings on insanity and his seminal 1838 treatise identify mental "fixation" as the primary symptom of monomania, the most contentious and well-known mental disease of the period, and one with far-reaching implications not only for medicine but for Romantic literature, philosophy, and autobiography. Examination of the disease's early reception reveals that, well before Berlioz, the psychiatric terminology surrounding monomania had been absorbed into popular discourse. Malignant and humorous idee fixes appeared in cartoons, diaries, and newspaper articles from the 1810s onward, and in fictional works by Hoffmann, Duras, Scribe, Balzac, and others. Here, and in essays published in musical and literary journals of the period, monomania emerged as an increasingly aestheticized malady, and the idee fixe itself as a signal, not of mental debilitation, but of creative absorption and artistic inspiration. When Berlioz figured himself as a monomaniac, both in his personal writing and his symphonic program, he was responding to a discourse of "creative aberration" permeating Romantic literary and medical culture, and to a fashionable fascination with mental pathology. Berlioz was by no means the only artist of the period to diagnose himself with the symptoms of mental fixation. Musset, Janin, and Georges Sand also described themselves in monomaniacal terms in autobiographical "confessions" permeated with references to hallucination, fixation, and emotional pathology. Indeed, we can draw clear parallels between the veiled self-referentiality of the Fantastique and the autobiographical strategies of the Romantic Confession. Berlioz's "self-sounding" resonates with a host of other confessional autobiographies of the period and reflects the collapse between inspiration and insanity, between anatomy and aesthetics, underpinning early-nineteenth-century theories of genius.

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Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

10.4324/9781003215653 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alison Wilcox

Keyword(s):

Personal Writing

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Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development

College & Research Libraries ◽

10.5860/crl.76.3.276 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 276-282 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Constance A. Mellon

Keyword(s):

Grounded Theory ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Initial Response ◽

Composition Courses ◽

Personal Writing ◽

Library Anxiety ◽

Library Research ◽

Library Use ◽

Asking Questions

This qualitative study explored the feelings of students about using the library for research. Personal writing, collected in beginning composition courses over a two-year period, was analyzed for recurrent themes. It was found that 75 to 85 percent of the students in these courses described their initial response to library research in terms of fear. Three concepts emerged from these descriptions: (1) students generally feel that their own library-use skills are inadequate while the skills of other students are adequate, (2) the inadequacy is shameful and should be hidden, and (3) the inadequacy would be revealed by asking questions. A grounded theory of library anxiety was constructed from these data.

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Kesantunan Mahasiswa Dalam Berbahasa Indonesia Di Media Sosial: Whatsapp, Facebook, Dan Instagram

JURNAL EDUSCIENCE ◽

10.36987/jes.v8i1.2118 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 39-46

Author(s):

Widya Tri Utomo ◽

Andhika Djalu Sembada ◽

Ricky Santoso Muharam

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Data Collection ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Oral Communication ◽

Written Communication ◽

Personal Writing ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Media Research ◽

Social Media Research ◽

Word Selection

The research aims to analyze students' modesty in Indonesian on social media, so that students pay more attention to the modesty in Indonesian through social media. Research uses qualitative descriptive methods to describe complex social realities by describing, classifying, analyzing, and interpreting data according to its natural condition. Data collection techniques take from student conversation screenshoots from social media WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram.The results showed, 1) there is still an ambiguous use of the word in written communication, 2) the use of the word "Sorry" to start a conversation on social media, 3) displeasure in giving greetings to lecturers, 4) the use of casual language (disrespectful) to lecturers, 5) indifference in word selection to lecturers through social media, and 6) insensitivity in giving opening greetings.Lecturers give direction to students through personal writing communication and provide examples of polite communication when chatting with students. The student's response after being given direction by the lecturer, has a positive impact. Students pay more attention to the civility of language when communicating with lecturers, either through written communication, or oral communication.

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Women in Patriarchy: A Study of Sexual Colonialism in Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v8i7.10656 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (7) ◽

pp. 52-59

Author(s):

Dr. Deepali Sharma

Keyword(s):

Women Characters ◽

Central Character ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

The Novel ◽

Australian Society ◽

Women Of Letters

Colleen McCullough, a famous Australian women novelist, extensively deals with the issue of sexual colonization by exhibiting the fact that this world belongs to men not to women where women suffer and men cause them pain. Meggie, the central character in the novel is shown as the victim, sufferer and the colonized individual and Paddy, Ralph and Luke are shown as the epitome of the British colonizers who misused, misbehaved and degraded the women during their colonial rule. The novelist while sketching women characters does not asseverate as ostensible women of letters but for the delineation of patriarchy in the novel The Thorn Birds which clearly manifests her declivity in the vicinity of the infringement with women in Australian society.

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Les "modernes" religioses valencianes: entrebancs d'una recerca textual

SCRIPTA Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna ◽

10.7203/scripta.1.2588 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 271

Author(s):

Maria Ángeles Herrero Herrero

Keyword(s):

Women Religious ◽

Genre Analysis ◽

Modern Age ◽

Starting Point ◽

Subsequent Application ◽

Women Of Letters

Resum: El catàleg titulat Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) suposava un punt de partida en la compilació de «lletraferides» valencianes de l’Edat Moderna. Aquest ajudà a rescatar els seus noms, però el major handicap radica en la diversitat en la localització física dels textos. A través d’una visió dels diferents gèneres que empraren aquestes escriptores, en especial les religioses (poesia, mística, auto/biografia espiritual…), avancem algunes conclusions que permetran una anàlisi sociolingu?ística, literària i de gènere d’eixes obres.Paraules clau: Catàleg, Localizació textual, Autores religioses, Valencianes, Modernes.Abstract: The catalogue entitled Lletraferides modernes. Catàleg de les escriptores valencianes dels segles XVI-XVIII (Herrero 2009) provided a starting point for the compilation of Valencian «women of letters» in the Modern Age. Although this catalogue helped to recover the names of these authors, the process is greatly hindered by the diversity of textual localisation. By considering the different genres these writers, particularly the religious authors, favoured (poetry, mystic, spiritual auto/biography,…), this paper aims to provide a number of conclusions for subsequent application in the sociolinguistic, literary and genre analysis of these works.Keywords: Catalogue, Textual localisation, Women religious authors, Valencian, Modern

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