Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project (Russian History and Culture) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Nightmare An analysis of the novels of Maturin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Mann, Lovecraft and Pelevin through the prism of their interest in investigating the nature of the nightmare reveals 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.
Full description- Publisher: Brill
- Published: 31 October 2012
- Format: Hardback 264 pages
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- Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Literary Theory | Literary Studies: General | Social & Cultural Anthropology
- ISBN 13: 9789004222755 ISBN 10: 9004222758
- Sales rank: 833,814
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Full description for Nightmare
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.
