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A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
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Abstract While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to ... mehr
While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to the medical diagnostics of neurosis in the individual, the contributions focus on the poetics of neurosis. They indicate how neuroses are still routinely romanticized or vilified, bent to suit aesthetic and narrative choices, and transfigured to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Film; Kultur; Kulturwissenschaft; Postkolonialismus; Neurose
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Anglophone World; British Studies; American Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
203 S.
Schriftenreihe
Culture & Theory, 161
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839441329
ISBN
978-3-8394-4132-9
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet