Monomania : The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art /
'Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idee fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pierre Janet : the phobia of everyday life
- Flaubert : the revenge of art on life
- The cult of the unreal : Nodier and romantic monomania
- Between Kant and Hegel : Baudelaire's dialogue with obsession
- Middlemarch : abstraction and empathy
- Musings on hypochondria : Thomas Mann's magic thermometer
- Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fe : the scholarly malady
- The cure in the disease : Nina Bouraoui's melancholic imperative
- Voyeuristic monomania : Sophie Calle's rituals.


