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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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oapen-20.500.12657-456302023-06-05T13:08:37Z A Poetics of Neurosis Furlanetto, Elena Meinel, Dietmar Sociology Neurosis Literature Film Culture Anglophone World Cultural Studies British Studies American Studies Postcolonialism 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. 2018-10-02 23:55 2020-03-17 03:00:35 2020-04-01T12:22:00Z 2020-04-01T12:22:00Z 2018-08-15 book 1001581 OCN: 1076755449 9783839441329 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45630 ger Edition Kulturwissenschaft application/pdf n/a 1001581.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839441329 103561 10.14361/9783839441329 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839441329 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) transcript Verlag Bielefeld, Germany 103561 OGeSoMO 1001796 Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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 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. |
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