A Poetics of Neurosis

doi:10.14361/9783839441329

A Poetics of Neurosis

Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts

dc.contributor.editor	Furlanetto, Elena
dc.contributor.editor	Meinel, Dietmar
dc.date.accessioned	2019-07-25T10:24:43Z
dc.date.available	2019-07-25T10:24:43Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.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 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.
dc.description.url	https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4132-5/a-poetics-of-neurosis/
dc.format.extent	206
dc.identifier.doi	10.14361/9783839441329
dc.identifier.isbn	9783839441329
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/390
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publishedIn	Bielefeld
dc.publisher	transcript
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Edition Kulturwissenschaft; 161
dc.rights	L::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:800
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:300
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:820
dc.subject.field	americanstudies
dc.subject.field	anglophoneliterature
dc.subject.field	culturalstudies
dc.subject.field	englishstudies
dc.subject.field	literarystudies
dc.subject.field	postcolonial
dc.subject.field	socialscience
dc.title	A Poetics of Neurosis
dc.title.alternative	Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
dc.type	anthology
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
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