Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project - Couverture rigide

Khapaeva, Dina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004222758 ISBN 13 : 9789004222755

Editeur : Brill, 2012

Synopsis

What is a nightmare as a psychological experience, a literary experiment and a cultural project? Why has experiencing a nightmare under the guise of reading a novel, watching a film or playing a video game become a persistent requirement of contemporary mass culture? By answering these questions, which have not been addressed by literary criticism and cultural studies, we can interpret anew the texts of classic authors. Charles Maturin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Howard Philips Lovecraft and Victor Pelevin carry out bold experiments on their heroes and readers as they seek to investigate the nature of nightmare in their works. This book examines their prose to reveal the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary experiments to today's culture of nightmare consumption.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dina Khapaeva (Professor and Chair, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology), is the author of four monographs (including Nouveau portrait de la Russie: essais sur la société gothique, translated from Russian by Nina Kehayan, Eds. de l'Aube, 2012 forthcoming) and has published more than 50 articles concerning historical memory, intellectual history, the history of culture and literary criticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004222758
• ISBN 13: 9789004222755
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 274
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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