Evelyne Keitel suggests that certain contemporary novels can alternately create states of acute anxiety and intense pleasure in their readers. She defines this genre, which includes writers such as Plath and Lessing, as "psychotic literature". Keitel distinguishes between pathographic texts (which analyze the distance between the author's neurosis and his or her point of view) and psychopathographies, which draw readers into an internalised pathographical experience. Reading Psychosis' shows how phases of pleasurable reading experience are intermittently disrupted by anxiety and anguish in a highly individual rhythm, a rhythm which echoes both the originating disturbance and the process of reading.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-631-16496-8 (9780631164968)
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Psychopathographies and contemporary literature; the literary type of psychopathography; the theoretical type of psychopathography; the imitative type of psychopathography; the virtual dimension of psychopathographies; opening up the genre ; communicating psychotic phenomena through literature.
