Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation

This essay deals with the historical and cultural interrelationships between the medical and psychiatric discourses on memory and memory disorders at the end of the nineteenth century and the invention of an abstract and highly dissociated literary style in modern German literature. An historical re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roland Dollinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1998-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/7