Depression and narrative [[electronic resource] ] : telling the dark / / edited by Hilary Clark

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xi, 262 p
• Disciplina: 809/.933561; 889/.933561
• Soggetto topico: Melancholy in literature; Depression, Mental, in literature; Mental illness in literature
• Altri autori: ClarkHilary Anne <1955->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions / Jennifer Radden -- The language of madness : representing bipolar disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison's An unquiet mind and Kate Millett's The loony-bin trip / Debra Beilke -- Winter tales : comedy and romance story-types in narratives of depression / Brenda Dyer -- "Repenting prodigal" : confession, conversion, and shame in William Cowper's Adelphi / Hilary Clark -- Leonid Andreev's construction of melancholy / Frederick H. White -- Storying sadness : representations of depression in the writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Tracy Thompson / Suzanne England, Carol Ganzer, and Carol Tosone -- "Addiction got me what I needed" : depression and drug addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoirs / Joanne Muzak -- Narrating the emotional woman : uptake and gender in discourses on depression / Kimberly Emmons -- Fact sheets as gendered narratives of depression / Linda M. McMullen -- A dark web : depression, writing, and the Internet / Kiki Benzon -- A meditation on depression, time, and narrative peregrination in the film The hours / Diane R. Wiener -- Therapy culture and TV : The Sopranos as a depression narrative / Deborah Staines -- For the relief of melancholy : the early Chinese novel as antidepressant / Andrew Schonebaum -- Manic-depressive narration and the hermeneutics of countertransference : Coleridge's The rime of the ancient mariner / Mark A. Clark -- Writing self/delusion : subjectivity and scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The shutter of snow / Sophie Blanch -- Depressing books : W.G. Sebald and the narratives of history / Eluned Summers-Bremner.
• Sommario/riassunto: How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.
• Titolo autorizzato: Depression and narrative
• ISBN: 0-7914-7759-2; 1-4356-8687-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818771003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II