Poetics of Neurosis – Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Elena Furlanetto, Dietmar Meinel, Elena Furlanetto, Dietmar Meinel

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-08
Mått147 x 226 x 15 mm
Vikt666 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCulture & Theory
Antal sidor280
FörlagTranscript Verlag
ISBN9783837641325

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Elena Furlanetto (Dr.) is a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research areas include American literature, postcolonial literatures and empire studies, post-9/11 cinema, and poetry. Dietmar Meinel (Dr.) is a post-doc in American literary and cultural studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interest include 19th-century America, animation films, and visual culture.