Madness and creativity in literature and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-, Macnaughton, Jane
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. Psychoanalysis and literature. Mentally ill, Writings of the > History and criticism. Authorship > Psychological aspects. Literature > Psychological aspects. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Authors, English > Psychology. Literature and mental illness. Mental illness in literature. Mentally ill in literature. Creative ability. Medicine in Literature. Mental Disorders > psychology. Creativity. Psychoanalysis. Writing.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / J.Macnaughton & C.Saunders
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
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': Representations of Madness in Some Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Poems / M.O'Neill
Madness, Medicine and Creativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain / M.Evans
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
'Writing Madness' (Dialogue) / A.Byatt & I.Sodre
Breaking Down or Breaking Out? (Dialogue) / P.Barker & A.Piette.