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Monomania : The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art /

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'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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal:	Van Zuylen, Marina
Format:	Électronique eBook
Langue:	Inglés
Publié:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Collection:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:	Kunst. Letterkunde. Obsessieve-compulsieve stoornis. Psychose > Motiv Literatur Obsessive-compulsive disorder in literature. Mental illness in literature. European literature. PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Compulsive Behavior. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary. Litterature europeenne > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique. Litterature europeenne > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique. Nevroses obsessionnelles dans la litterature. Maladies mentales dans la litterature. European literature > 20th century > History and criticism. European literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Europa Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
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Table des matières:

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.