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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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
literature; film; culture; cultural studies; post-colonialism; neurosis
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Anglophone World; British Studies; American Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
203 p.
Series
Culture & Theory, 161
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839441329
ISBN
978-3-8394-4132-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed