Affective disorder and the writing life : the melancholic muse /
How does affective madness influence the social understanding of writers and other artists, or shape the creative act itself? In a fifteen-year longitudinal study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a study little known outside of psychiatry, eighty per cent of the writers reported either living wit...
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New York :
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: "COULD IT BE MADNESS, THIS?" AFFECTIVE DIFFERENCE AND THE WORK OF COMPOSITION
- 1. 'What Ceremony of Words Can Patch the Havoc?': Composition and madness / Stephanie Stone Horton
- 2. Muse Afire: Negotiating the Line Between Creative Pursuit and Mental Illness / Nancer Ballard
- 3. After the Fire Goes Out: Writing Before and After Treatment for Affective Disorder / Lise Bagoley
- 4. Gaps on the Vita / Sharon O'Brien
- 5. Lunatic / Jeannie Parker Beard
- PART II: "THEIR LIVES A STORM WHEREON THEY RIDE": AFFECTIVE (DIS)ORDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
- 6. Axing the Frozen Sea: Female Inscriptions of Madness / Joann K. Deiudicibus
- 7. The Things We Carry: Embodied Truth and Tim O' Brien's Poetics of Despair / David Bahr
- 8. 'The Incessant Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise': Virginia Woolf Treading the Waves / Jessica De Santa
- 9. The Fire, the Dark, and the Beautiful Distance / Stephen Newton.