Monomania : : The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art / / Marina Van Zuylen.
"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence. Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the idée fixe, who have come close to surrenderi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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