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The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such, this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation, transnational exchange and influence, exploring the effects of forces such as war, migration, and internationalization.
Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genre’s dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary, temporal, and national boundaries. In doing so, they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities.
Show moreThe case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it questions how case studies have been taken up by a range of audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge. As such, this book engages with case studies as sites of interdisciplinary negotiation, transnational exchange and influence, exploring the effects of forces such as war, migration, and internationalization.
Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge challenges the limits of disciplinary-based research in the humanities. The cases examined serve as a means of passage between disciplines, genres, and publics, from law to psychoanalysis, and from auto/biography to modernist fiction. Its chapters scrutinize the case study in order to sharpen understanding of the genre’s dynamic role in the construction and dissemination of knowledge within and across disciplinary, temporal, and national boundaries. In doing so, they position the case at the center of cultural and social understandings of the emergence of modern subjectivities.
Show moreForeword 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
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.
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