Monomania the flight from everyday life in literature and art

• Main Author: Van Zuylen, Marina
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press 2005
• Subjects: Ψυχικές διαταραχές στη λογοτεχνία; Ευρωπαϊκή λογοτεχνία > Ιστορία και κριτική > 19ος αι.; Ευρωπαϊκή λογοτεχνία > Ιστορία και κριτική > 20ός αι.

Table of Contents:

• 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