TY - BOOK ED - Furlanetto, Elena ED - Meinel, Dietmar AB - 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. DO - 10.14361/9783839441329 ID - OAPEN ID: 1001581 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1076755449 KW - Sociology KW - Neurosis KW - Literature KW - Film KW - Culture KW - Anglophone World KW - Cultural Studies KW - British Studies KW - American Studies KW - Postcolonialism L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/82b79c06-d0c9-4228-988f-8a7ca7cfa788/1001581.pdf LA - German LK - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45630 PB - transcript Verlag PP - Bielefeld, Germany PY - 2018-08-15 SN - 9783839441329 TI - A Poetics of Neurosis : Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts ER -