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Greene, Logan Dale.

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The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric (France, Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Margery Kempe, Saint Hildegard von Bingen).

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Title/Author:	The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric (France, Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Margery Kempe, Saint Hildegard von Bingen)./
Author:	Greene, Logan Dale.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4547.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-12A.
Subject:	Language, Rhetoric and Composition. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3156682
ISBN:	9780496175949

The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric (France, Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Margery Kempe, Saint Hildegard von Bingen).
Greene, Logan Dale.

The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric (France, Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Margery Kempe, Saint Hildegard von Bingen). - 296 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4547.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 2004.

This project analyzes the rhetorical strategies of five women from different historical periods, finding commonalities that constitute a discourse strategy characteristic of women's rhetoric. This strategy, the discourse of hysteria, derives from and makes productive use of women's historical position at the margins of institutionalized power in our culture. This discourse is constituted by three topoi, or commonplaces, that have been employed by women over many centuries and that parallel the characteristics of hysteria. They represent the transformation of hysterical symptoms into rhetorical strategy. These three topoi are humility, which consists of the assertion of inferiority as a means of securing approval; physicality, which involves the deployment of the body in imagery and gesture; and authority, which is a claim of standing to be heard, often based on grounds of maternity or divine revelation.

ISBN: 9780496175949Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019205
Language, Rhetoric and Composition.

The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric (France, Helene Cixous, Sojourner Truth, Aphra Behn, Margery Kempe, Saint Hildegard von Bingen).
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520 $a This project analyzes the rhetorical strategies of five women from different historical periods, finding commonalities that constitute a discourse strategy characteristic of women's rhetoric. This strategy, the discourse of hysteria, derives from and makes productive use of women's historical position at the margins of institutionalized power in our culture. This discourse is constituted by three topoi, or commonplaces, that have been employed by women over many centuries and that parallel the characteristics of hysteria. They represent the transformation of hysterical symptoms into rhetorical strategy. These three topoi are humility, which consists of the assertion of inferiority as a means of securing approval; physicality, which involves the deployment of the body in imagery and gesture; and authority, which is a claim of standing to be heard, often based on grounds of maternity or divine revelation.
520 $a The first chapter of the dissertation addresses the history of women's rhetoric. This history is supported by recent publications that have recovered a significant body of rhetorical work by women that had been erased or forgotten. The second chapter surveys the history of hysteria as a diagnosis applied almost exclusively to women and introduces Lacanian discourse theory, which includes the discourse of the hysteric. From Lacan's work, I derive a formulation for a discourse of hysteria, expressed in three topoi: humility, physicality, and authority.
520 $a The next five chapters apply this discourse strategy to the work of five women. Chapter Three concerns the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen (1098--1179); Chapter Four, Margery Kempe (1373--1440); Chapter Five, Aphra Behn (1640--1689); Chapter Six, Sojourner Truth (1797--1883); Chapter Seven, Helene Cixous (1937-- ). Chapter Eight concludes with the argument that eros has emerged as a new center of authority, not replacing the historically privileged logos but displacing it as the center. Eros is a new signifier generated by feminism, which has functioned in the modern period as a cultural hysteric. The new valuation of eros in relation to logos is connected with a greater inclusion of women in public life. The discourse of hysteria, developed by women over many centuries, continues to offer opportunities for rhetorical power.
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