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Author:

Gammelgaard, Lasse, 1983- author.

Title:

Madness and literature : what fiction can do for the understanding of mental illness / edited by Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard.

Publisher:

University of Exeter Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

x, 291 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literature and mental illness.
Mental illness in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Criticism.
Fiction.
Literature and mental illness.
Mental illness in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 14. Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives / 1. Layla and Majnun in Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Madness in Islamic Psychology / Heike Bartel. 2. The Anti-Psychiatry Ethos in Samuel Beckett's Murphy / Shoshana Benjamin -- 3. Apartheid's Garden: Dismantling Madness in J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K / Sebastian C. Galbo -- 4. Sniffs and Dribblers: Poppy Shakespeare and the Identities of Madness / Clare Allan -- pt. II Literary Theory and Experiencing Mental Illness -- 5. Reading Shattering Minds and Extended Selves in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway / Anna Ovaska -- 6. Spill the Words: Speechlessness and Creativity in the Writing of Janet Frame / Mary Elene Wood -- 7. Pronominal Shifts and the Confusion of Self with Not-Self / Alice Herve -- 8. Rethinking Clinical and Critical Perspectives on Psychosis in Kathy Acker's Writing / Charley Baker -- 9. Countering the DSM in Poetry about Bipolar Disorder / Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard -- 10. Seeing Feeling: Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Memoryin the Graphic Novel Perfect Hair / Penni Russon -- pt. III Literary Instrumentality and Clinical Psychopathology -- 11. Writing Therapy, Writing Data: Therapeutic Writing as a Methodological and Ethical Approach in Researching Digital Sexual Assault / Signe Uldbjerg -- 12. A Question of Context: Sites for Cultural Negotiation in Narratives of Manic Depression / Megan Milota -- 13. Conscripting Dante: History, Anachronism, and the Uses of Literary Precedents in the `New' Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder / David Orr -- 14. Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives / Heike Bartel.

Series:

Language, discourse and mental health

ISBN:

1905816375
9781905816378

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136962442

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)