A Poetics of Neurosis : Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
Furlanetto, Elena
A Poetics of Neurosis : Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20180815
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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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German
9783839441329 9783839441329
10.14361/9783839441329 doi
Sociology Neurosis Literature Film Culture Anglophone World Cultural Studies British Studies American Studies Postcolonialism
A Poetics of Neurosis : Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20180815
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
German
9783839441329 9783839441329
10.14361/9783839441329 doi
Sociology Neurosis Literature Film Culture Anglophone World Cultural Studies British Studies American Studies Postcolonialism