Dionysus in literature : essays on literary madness / / edited by Branimir M. Rieger

• Pubblicazione: Bowling Green, Ohio : , : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, , 1994; ©1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 pages)
• Disciplina: 809/.93353
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness in literature; Dionysus (Greek deity) in literature
• Altri autori: RiegerBranimir M. <1943->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Introduction Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness -- Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness -- Are Creative Writers Mad? An Empirical Perspective -- Through a Lens, Darkly -- A Horneyan Approach to American Literature -- The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-types of Merlin -- Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevsky and His Underground Man -- Hamiet: Madness and the Eye of the Reader -- Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake -- Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's "Madness": The Precarious Quest for Truth -- Herman Melville and "The Sane Madness of Vital Truth -- Inmates Running the Asylum: The Institution in Contemporary American Fiction -- Faulkner and the Furies -- Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut -- Stephen King's Misery: Manie Depression and Creativity -- The Class Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Theme Course on "Madness in Literature -- Contributors.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dionysus in literature
• ISBN: 1-280-48782-8; 9786613583055; 0-299-27873-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818166903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II