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基本説明
Using literary texts to explore two growing discourses within English studies - the emotion/affect and trauma studies, this study uses its theoretical and philosophical questioning of a cultural phenomenon to interrogate the politics and ends of theory, and is timely in addressing similar anxieties dominating contemporary critical and cultural theory.
Full Description
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, aesthetic theory, speech act theory, feminism, and gender and performance studies. The study uses its theoretical and philosophical questioning of a cultural phenomenon to interrogate the politics and ends of theory, and is timely in addressing similar anxieties dominating contemporary critical and cultural theory.
Contents
Preface, Acknowledgments, Chapter One: Introduction: Stuck in the Gullet of the Signifier: Desire, Disgust, and the Aesthetics of Hysteria, Chapter Two: Too Much, Too Little: The Emotional Capital of Victorian Melodrama, Chapter Three: Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Chapter Four: Broken English: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, Chapter Five: Emetic Theory: Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index