A poetics of neurosis : narratives of normalcy and disorder in cultural and literary texts /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Furlanetto, Elena (Editor), Meinel, Dietmar (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, 2018.
Series:Culture & theory.
Subjects:
Neuroses in literature.
Névroses dans la littérature.
Literary Criticism.
Neuroses in literature
American Studies.
Anglophone World.
British Studies.
Cultural Studies.
Culture.
Film.
Literature.
Postcolonialism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics / Meinel, Dietmar
  • The Lure of Space : Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days / Munteán, László
  • Disintegrated Selves : Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book / Furlanetto, Elena
  • Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap : The Potential of Transcultural Recognition / Wegner, Jarula M.I.
  • Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship / De Waal, Ariane
  • Pegida as Angstneurotiker : A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media / Gür-Şeker, Derya
  • Ain't It Funny? : Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis / Blue V, Alex
  • Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Diasporic Short Fictions / Monaco, Angelo
  • Allegories of Pathology : Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott's Omeros / Roy, Sneharika.

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