Monomania : : The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art / / Marina Van Zuylen.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Pierre Janet: The Phobia Of Everyday Life -- 2. Flaubert: The Revenge Of Art On Life -- 3. The Cult Of The Unreal: Nodier And Romantic Monomania -- 4. Between Kant And Hegel: Baudelaire's Dialogue With Obsession -- 5. Middlemarch: Abstraction And Empathy -- 6. Musings On Hypochondria: Thomas Mann's Magic Thermometer -- 7. Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé: The Scholarly Malady -- 8. The Cure In The Disease: Nina Bouraoui's Melancholic Imperative -- 9. Voyeuristic Monomania: Sophie Calle's Rituals -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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