Thus “Hysterical Literature” was born, the title playing on the fact that while the videos both witness and elicit laughter, the name is also a sly, throwback reference to what Michel Foucault termed the “hysterization of women's bodies” that was rampant at the turn of the 20th-century...
It might be argued that literature has only very rarely represented character. Even the greatest novelists, such as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, resort to stock caricature, didactic speaking over characters, repetitive leitmotifs, and so on. The truly unhostaged writer, such as Chekhov, is rare.Budde...