Furlanetto / Meinel A Poetics of Neurosis

Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4132-9
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Edition Kulturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furlanetto, Elena

Meinel, Dietmar

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Furlanetto, Elena
Elena Furlanetto (Dr.) is a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research areas include American literature, postcolonial literatures and empire studies, post-9/11 cinema, and poetry.

Meinel, Dietmar
Dietmar Meinel (Dr.) is a post-doc in American literary and cultural studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interest include 19th-century America, animation films, and visual culture.

Elena Furlanetto (Dr.) is a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her main research areas include American literature, postcolonial literatures and empire studies, post-9/11 cinema, and poetry.
Dietmar Meinel (Dr.) is a post-doc in American literary and cultural studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research interest include 19th-century America, animation films, and visual culture.