... This chapters examines the attempts by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to popularise their research by choosing to analyse cases—and thus the phenomenon of—creative genius. It shows how psychoanalysis and its proponents co-opted and adapted the medical case study as an extant and authoritative...

...This chapter discusses the importance of landscape painting in the formation of early twentieth-century Canadian national identity, in particular the Theosophical aspirations and quest for the genius loci of the Group of Seven painters in Ontario, and Emily Carr in British Columbia. Jeff Wall’s...

... is shown to be ultimately transformative. Siddal Elizabeth A Woman and a Spectre Siddal genius concept of hair women’s as a trope Keats John Langham Place Group Pre Raphaelitism Romantic movement Ruskin John Hunt Holman Millais John Everett Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti William Michael ‘Gone...

... supported innovations that its commercial system could make profitable, it has not welcomed innovations with limited appeal to audiences, innovations that went too far. genius artist subjectivity Je fais … de Hawks, le plus grand cinéaste, Griffith excepté, naquit en Amérique, bien supérieur à mon goût...

... Leo emerges as a new, human incarnation of the genius loci of the picturesque tradition: he performs within the landscape, while he himself is branded by it. Attempting to make sense of how he has been traumatised, Leo struggles with the aesthetic mystification that cloaks...