Poetics of Neurosis – Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
"[The book] fulfills its goal, and with gusto - it disposes of diagnostic exactness to embrace terminological vagueness yet successfully diagnoses many fundamenta ailments and discomforts of our present-day culture." Marija Spirkovska, KULT_online, 60 (2019)
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Transcript Verlag
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9783837641325
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"[The book] fulfills its goal, and with gusto - it disposes of diagnostic exactness to embrace terminological vagueness yet successfully diagnoses many fundamenta ailments and discomforts of our present-day culture." Marija Spirkovska, KULT_online, 60 (2019)