Madness And Creativity In Literature And Culture - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1403921997 ISBN 13: 9781403921994

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Riassunto

This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may inspire creativity. The volume also illuminates the history of medicine, demonstrating the shifts and continuities in clinical understandings of and social attitudes to mental illness from the Middle Ages through to the 'enlightened' notions of the Eighteenth Century to the development of psychoanalysis. The volume includes original contributions from well-known writers and specialists, such as the late Sir Roy Porter, Al Alvarez, Pat Barker, Michael O'Donnell and A. S Byatt.

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L'autore:

AL ALVAREZ Notable poet, critic and writerPAT BARKER Well-known author of The Regeneration Trilogy, amongst othersANTONIA BYATT Writer and literary critic; winner of the Booker Prize in 1990ROBIN DOWNIE Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow, UKMARTYN EVANS Chair of Humanities in Medicine, University of Durham, UKDAVID FULLER Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UKALLAN INGRAM Professor of English and Head of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UKMICHAEL O'DONNELL Well-known as doctor, writer and broadcasterMICHAEL O'NEILL Professor and Chairman of English Studies, University of Durham, UKADAM PIETTE Reader in English, Glasgow University, UKROY PORTER Former Professor in the Wellcome Trust Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London (died 2002)IGNÈS SODRÉ Author and psychoanalystSTEPHEN SYKES Professor of Theology, University of Durham and Principal of St John's College, DurhamPATRICIA WAUGH Professor of English Studies, University of Durham, UK

Contenuti:

Introduction: C.Saunders &J.Macnaughton
PART ONE: READING MADNESS: LITERATURE IN MEDICINE
Madness and Creativity: Communication and Excommunication; R.Porter
Doctors as Performance Artists; M.O'Donnell
Ambiguity in Attitudes to Madness and Creativity; R.Downie
PART TWO: MADNESS IN LITERATURE; MEDIEVAL TO MODERN
'The thoughtful maladie': Madness and Vision in Medieval Writing; C.Saunders
'Inexpressibly Dreadful': Depression, Confession and Language in 18th Century Britain; A.Ingram
Wonders in the Deep: Cowper, Melancholy and Religion; S.Sykes
'Mad as a refuge from unbelief': William Blake and the Sanity of Dissidence; D.Fuller
'Why then Ile Fit You': Poetry and Madness from Wordsworth to Berryman; M.O'Neill
Madness, Medicine and Creativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; M.Evans
PART THREE: WRITING MADNESS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERATURE
Creative Writers and Psychopathology: The Cultural Consolations of 'The Wound and the Bow' Thesis: P.Waugh
The Myth of the Artist: A.Alvarez
On Writing Madness (Dialogue); A.Byatt & I.Sodré
Breaking Down or Breaking Out? (Dialogue); P.Barker & A.Piette
Index

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1403921997
• ISBN 13: 9781403921994
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Redattore: Saunders Corinne, Macnaughton Jane