Nightmare: from Literary Experiments to Cultural Project From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project |
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| Author:
| Khapaeva, Dina |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-23322-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $234.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.