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An Epidemic of Apathy: Abulia and the Language of Pathology in Baroja’s Early Fiction

Murphy, Katharine

Hispanic review, 2023-07, Vol.91 (3), p.387-410 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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  • Título:
    An Epidemic of Apathy: Abulia and the Language of Pathology in Baroja’s Early Fiction
  • Autor: Murphy, Katharine
  • Assuntos: 19th century ; 20th century ; Apathy ; Azorin (1873-1967) ; Baroja y Nessi, Pio (1872-1956) ; Disease ; Fiction ; Jargon ; Literary characters ; Literatura española ; Medical language ; Medicina y literatura ; Medicine ; Metaphor ; Metáfora ; Novela ; Novels ; Pathology ; Physiology ; Psychopathology ; Romantic period ; Spanish literature
  • É parte de: Hispanic review, 2023-07, Vol.91 (3), p.387-410
  • Descrição: The literary exposition of abulia in Pío Baroja’s early novels, especially La lucha por la vida trilogy, illuminates the ways in which diagnostic language from psychopathology was adapted, assimilated, and disseminated through the trajectories of fictional characters who suffer from a loss of volition. This article analyzes cultural narratives about abulia in Baroja’s early fiction, demonstrating that they constitute a resonant pathological metaphor during a period in Spain’s history defined by national introspection and regenerationist debates. By tracing metaphorical explanations for social, political, and economic circumstances conveyed through the literary appropriation of medical terminology, this study explores comparisons between abulia and the gendered and class-based associations of neurasthenia at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the assumed causes of each condition are different, this process of transposition between medicine and metaphor anticipates the contemporary social, cultural, and ideological shaping of concepts such as stress and burnout.
  • Editor: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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