A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837641325)

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A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts

$40.00

A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, literary studies have in recent years 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.

Author: Elena Furlanetto
ISBN-10: 3837641325
ISBN-13: 9783837641325
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/27/2018
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.60d
By Elena Furlanetto
By Elena Furlanetto
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Elena Furlanetto 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 teaches American literary and cultural studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interests include nineteenth-century America, animation films, and visual culture.

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