Giselle, madness & death
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Giselle, madness & death.
In this paper the Romantic ballet Giselle (1841) is used as a case study through which to examine the themes of madness and death. Giselle is a heartrending story of the intertwining of love and death. It is argued that Giselle is an evocative example of narratives of hysteria and suicide, and literature in the field of medical history is drawn upon to demonstrate the relations between the cult...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Humanities
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1468-215X,1473-4265
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2003.000149