A Poetics of Neurosis
Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics
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The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days
Seiten 37 - 54 -
Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book
Seiten 55 - 74 -
Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition
Seiten 75 - 94 -
Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship
Seiten 95 - 114 -
Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media
Seiten 115 - 136 -
Ain't It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis
Seiten 137 - 158 -
Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Diasporic Short Fictions
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Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott's Omeros
Seiten 179 - 206
27. November 2018, 206 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4132-5
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