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L’exploration du musicien italien à la fin du XIXe siècle : entre médicalisation et paradoxe
Laboratoire Italien, 2017 This article explores the works of Cesare Lombroso on the man of genius and his relationships with insanity. It highlights these works’ prominent features such as the medicalized approach, the question of the heredity of talents, and the links between ...
Jean-Christophe Coffin
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New motherhood and eugenics in German women's political and popular fiction around 1900
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 2, Page 101-111, April 2025.Abstract Fictional texts have long functioned as a testing ground for new impulses in society. At the turn of the twentieth century many German feminists were demanding greater influence for women in public life not despite but because of their role as mothers.
Caroline Bland
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Raskolnikov: Not the Typical Criminal Man [PDF]
, 2014 Criminologists in the nineteenth century gave much effort to identify, classify, and understand the physical, social, and psychological characteristics of the world’s criminals.
Noonan, Mary C
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“Truly, I tell you, the poet is…” Wojaczek by Lech Majewski from 1999 [PDF]
, 2018 The theme of the text is the connection between the inspiration of the artists, for example poets, and their emotional states. The purpose of the text is to indicate the role of emotions in creative work.
Grodź, Iwona
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.Short Abstract In this paper, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies.
Camilla Hawthorne
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La construction lombrosienne de l’épilepsie et le débat avec Gabriel Tarde. Crime et / ou folie ?
Criminocorpus, 2016 Cet article entend traiter le rapport entre crime et folie dans les théories de Cesare Lombroso et de Gabriel Tarde. Notre étude se concentre plus précisément sur l’apparition de la folie morale et de l’épilepsie dans L’uomo delinquente de Lombroso ...
Alessio Berré
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Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in Italian Context - Past and Present [PDF]
, 2018 Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past and Present. In the last 30 years Italy experienced relevant changes due to its new configuration as a postcolonial country and land of transnational migrations, without ...
FABBRI, GIULIA
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Engendering carcerality: An introduction
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 807-823, October 2024.Abstract Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers ...
Eileen Boris +2 more
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Hérédité et atavisme criminel dans les romans d’Hector Malot
Arts et Savoirs, 2016 This article studies the litterary investment of the topic of heredity in several of Hector Malot’s novels, particularly his representation of the hereditary or « atavistic » criminal, inspired by the theory of the born-criminal developped by Cesare ...
Ivan Kiriow
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How to humiliate and shame: A reporter's guide to the power of the mugshot [PDF]
, 2013 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Social Semiotics, 24(1), 56-87, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/The judicial photograph – the “mugshot” – is a ubiquitous and instantly ...
Arendt H. +30 more
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