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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Other Authors: Furlanetto, Elena (Editor), Meinel, Dietmar (Editor)
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Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2018
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft
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