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...
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Bielefeld
transcript Verlag
2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Edition Kulturwissenschaft
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: A Cultural History of Neurosis, From Diagnostics to Poetics 9 The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days 37 Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book 55 Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition 75 Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship 95 Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media 115 Ain't It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis 137 Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Diasporic Short Fictions 159 Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott's Omeros 179
