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11 of the Best Books and Articles on: Madness in Literature

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Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness » Read Now
by Branimir M. Rieger. 227 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for her suggestion that my "Madness in Literature" panels at the Popular Culture...Nest: A Theme Course on "Madness in Literature" 221 Branimir...What exactly is meant by...
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Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865 » Read Now
by Helen Small. 266 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and...
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Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.
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Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction: Inmates Running the Asylum » Read Now
by Barbara Tepa Lupack. 246 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Redemption in literature. I. Title...Tepa, and in memory of...to bring madness under the...Dionysus in Literature Popular...Redemption in Contemporary...Reason in madness...
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Creativity, the Arts, and Madness, in Roeper Review » Read Now
by Maureen Neihart. 4 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...between genius and madness. Acceptance of...psychoanalytic concepts in Vienna. Freud...works of art and literature contained universal...creativity and madness (Jamison...
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Literature and Psychoanalysis (Chap. 7 "Writers and Madness") » Read Now
by Edith Kurzweil, William Phillips. 403 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Experience in the Artist...and Modern Literature 72...Writers and Madness 85...collective madness, as Laing and Szasz -- in their different...that united literature with...
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A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature ("'Preaching to the Nerves': Psychological Disorder in Sensation Fiction" begins on p. 192) » Read Now
by Marina Benjamin. 264 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...8135-1983-7 paper 1. Women in literature. 2. Women in science. 3. Human...Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science University of Chicago...of the most...
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The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius » Read Now
by Debra Hershkowitz. 360 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid), addresses the difficulty of defining...
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Madness features in many ancient epics: not only do characters go mad, but madness often plays an important thematic role. This book examines the representation and poetic function of madness in epic poetry (including the work of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid), addresses the difficulty of defining madness, and discusses how each epic explores the theme in a unique way.
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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France » Read Now
by Tony James. 304 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as...
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Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lelut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called "phenomena of sleep" and particularly the question: might dreams be a source of creativity?
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The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature (Chap. Three "A Buddhist Paradox: The Aesthetics of Madness") » Read Now
by Michele Marra. 222 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

...The Aesthetics of Madness 54 CHAPTER...Italy with a degree in Japanese literature but without any...and the entire literature of reclusion. The...aristocracy are rejected...
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Dramatizing Dementia: Madness in the Plays of Tennessee Williams » Read Now
by Jacqueline O'Connor. 117 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ubiquitous appearance of madness in literature, which hinges on the creation...shut away" in the work of literature, for the madness exists in a fictional form that...
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Dictionary of World Literature: Criticism, Forms, Technique » Read Now
by Joseph T. Shipley. 642 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...criticism; truth in art; poetic justice...contemplation; literature and society; artist...psychanalysis; surrealism, madness; dream; supernatural...system of thought...