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Monstrosität : abweichungen in literatur und wissenschaften des 19. jahrhunderts / Jan Niklas Howe.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Jan Niklas, author.
- Series:
- WeltLiteraturen ; Band 10.
- WeltLiteraturen =, 2198-9370 ; Band 10 World Literatures
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Literature--History and criticism--19th century.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In German.
- Summary:
- "The study examines the parallel emergence of a new paradigm of deviation in literature and science. From Hoffmann and Poe to Henry James, from medical teratology and early psychiatry to the theory of evolution, the book traces the development of a modern dialectic of the defiguration and refiguration of monstrous forms."-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Dank
- Inhalt
- 1. Man sieht sie nicht mehr
- 2. Teratologische Folgerungen
- 3. Defiguration, Refiguration: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- 4. Psychiatrische Defiguration
- 5. Der Monolog des Triebs: Edgar Allan Poe
- 6. Perfektion und Caprice
- 7. Deviantes Self-Fashioning: Henry James
- Das Monströse überlebt seine Banalisierung
- Bibliographie
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Diss. Freie Universität Berlin 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 3-11-047841-2
- 3-11-047886-2
- OCLC:
- 954046790
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