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Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma
This study probes the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma. Gravers' study brings us to present-day Burma and …
Paradigms of Paranoia
The recent popularity of The DaVinci Code and The Matrix trilogy exemplifies the fascination Americans have with conspiracy-driven subjects. Though scholars have suggested that in …
Power and Paranoia
Paranoia: A Study in Diagnosis
There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last …
Paranoia and Contentment
A hybrid in both content and style, Paranoia and Contentment is a bold and original inestigation into Western intellectual history. John Hampsey approaches paranoia not as a …
Plots and Paranoia
Britain’s secret state exists to protect her from ‘enemies within’. It has always aroused controversy; on the one hand it is credited with preventing wars, revolutions and …
Gender, Madness, and Colonial Paranoia in Australian Literature
This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze …
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping …
Paranoia and Modernity
"Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, …
Paranoia, Fear & Alienation
Paranoid fiction is described as ""literature that explores the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power."" This essay compilation investigates …
Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”
Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways …