Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9780367263782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Joy Damousi; Birgit Lang; Katie Sutton

Opis

This volume investigates the history of the case study genre and its relationship to different publics and audiences, from patients to social reformers, and from moral crusaders to literary audiences.

Spis treści

Foreword  John Forrester  Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge
Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang and Katie Sutton  Part I: Case Knowledge  1. The Case of the Archive  Warwick Anderson  2. The Case Study as Representative Anecdote  John Cash  3. Influencing Public Knowledge: Erich Wulffen and the Criminal Case of Grete Beier  Birgit Lang  4. A Case for Female Individuality: Käthe Schirmacher—Self-Invention and Biography  Johanna Gehmacher  Part II: Historical Cases  5. Sexological Cases and the Prehistory of Transgender Identity Politics in Interwar Germany  Katie Sutton  6.  The Sad Tale of Sister Barbara Ubryk: A Case Study in Convent Captivity  Timothy Verhoeven  7. The Curious Case/s of Dr. Wallace: Sexuality and the Medical File in Postwar Australia  Lisa Featherstone  8. Sexuality and the Public Case Study in the United States, 1940–65  Joy Damousi  Part III: Literary Circulations  9. The Overdetermined Literary Case Study of “New Objectivity”: Alfred Döblin’s Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord (1924)  Alison Lewis  10. The Lunatics of Love: Armand Dubarry’s Psychopathological Novels and Their Publics  Jana Verhoeven  11. Making a Case for Castration: Literary Cases and Psychoanalytic Readings  Christiane Weller  12. When the Case Writer Eclipses the Case: Linda Lê’s Case Study of Ingeborg Bachmann  Alexandra Kurmann

O autorze

Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Birgit Lang is Senior Lecturer in German at the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne.

Katie Sutton is a Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at the Australian National University.