| A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts Contributor(s): Furlanetto, Elena (Editor), Meinel, Dietmar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3837641325 ISBN-13: 9783837641325 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Series: Culture & Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (0.75 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |