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Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / / Jeffrey Berman
| Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / / Jeffrey Berman |
| Autore | Berman Jeffrey |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 pages) |
| Disciplina | 808.06692 |
| Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Authorship
Authors - Mental health Literature and mental illness Literary Criticism - General Literature & literary studies |
| ISBN |
1-78973-809-1
1-78973-807-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793604203321 |
Berman Jeffrey
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| Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / / Jeffrey Berman
| Mad muse : the mental illness memoir in a writer's life and work / / Jeffrey Berman |
| Autore | Berman Jeffrey |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 pages) |
| Disciplina | 808.06692 |
| Soggetto topico |
Autobiography - Authorship
Authors - Mental health Literature and mental illness Literary Criticism - General Literature & literary studies |
| ISBN |
9781789738094
1789738091 9781789738070 1789738075 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Out of the Closet to Bear Witness -- "Compulsive Memoirism of the Mentally Ill" -- A New Sub-Genre Largely Ignored or Mistrusted -- Understanding Memoirs Backward and Forward -- Creative Malady -- The Ambiguities of Mad Muses and Mad Memoirs -- Fake Memoirs -- F. Scott Fitzgerald: "The Authority of Failure" -- Sherwin Nuland: "I was an Impostor" -- The Wounded Storyteller -- The Difference Between Survival Stories and Triumph Narratives -- Writing/Righting Wrong -- The Plan of this Book -- Questions -- 1-"The Landscape Of Depression": William Styron and Darkness Visible -- "BEYOND EXPRESSION" -- "THE LANDSCAPE OF DEPRESSION" -- LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS -- A WRAITHLIKE OBSERVER -- A MIRROR OF STYRON'S CHILDHOOD LIFE -- SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE -- THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER -- SOPHIE'S CHOICE -- "MALIGNANT DEPRESSION" -- STINGO'S RESCUE FANTASIES -- "A STUDY IN THE CONQUEST OF GRIEF" -- "MY WRITING HAD KEPT SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DISTRESS SAFELY AT BAY" -- STYRON'S HEART OF DARKNESS -- WHY MEMOIR? -- "THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION" -- READING MY FATHER -- A SCANDAL -- WRITING MADNESS -- ALL THE FINEST GIRLS -- A SUICIDE LETTER TO HIS READERS -- A LIFELINE -- 2-"My Proclaimed Sanity and My Conjectured Madness": Kate Millett and The Loony-Bin Trip -- Sexual Politics -- The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue -- Flying -- Sita -- The Basement and Going to Iran -- The Loony-Bin Trip -- Millett's Reading of Other Accounts of Mood Disorders -- A Conspiracy -- Interpreting Tape-Recorded Conversations -- Sleeplessness -- The Loony-Bin Trip in Ireland -- Another Version of the Story -- Mania or Hypomania? -- Ivor Browne -- The Language of Manic Depression -- Talk Therapy -- Thomas Szasz -- "A Crisis to Die" -- Shame.
"A Small Prophylactic Dose" -- Reviews of The Loony-Bin Trip -- Life After The Loony-Bin Trip -- 3-"A Strange and Driving Force, A Destroyer, A Fire in the Blood": Kay Redfield Jamison and An Unquiet Mind -- Touched with Fire -- What's in a Name? -- An Unquiet Mind -- Drawing upon her Own Experience: The Two Editions of Manic-Depressive Illness -- "Severely Depressed. Very Quiet" -- Night Falls Fast -- The Contagion Effect -- Jamison's Psychiatrist -- Writing About her Family -- Exuberance -- Nothing was the Same -- Jamison as Therapist -- Grief, not Madness -- Robert Lowell -- Using Psychiatric Records -- A Textbook Diagnosis -- Two Biographers Writing About Madness -- A Study of Madness and Creativity -- 4-"For Better or Worse You Inherit Me": Linda Gray Sexton and Searching for Mercy Street and Half in Love -- Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters -- Manic-Depressive Illness -- A Suicide Letter Five Years Before the Event -- Between Two Worlds -- Chris Hastings -- Rituals -- Lily Sinclair -- Oedipal and Pre-Oedipal Desire -- Proofreading -- A Father's War Story -- Mirror Images -- A Signature Daughter -- Twinning and Playing Nine -- Domestic Violence -- Mother-Daughter Incest -- "The Double Image" -- Points of Light -- The Kiss -- Reunion with the Dead -- Private Acts -- Searching for Mercy Street -- The Meaning of the Title -- Writing as Rescue -- Half in Love -- The Limits of Disguises -- Sexton's Psychiatrists -- The Legacy of Suicide -- Critical Reviews -- Ghosts and Ancestors -- 5-"Truth is Bendable": Lauren Slater and Lying -- Welcome to My Country -- Prozac Diary -- A Traumatizing Mother -- Lying -- A Philosophy Professor without Ontological Existence -- The Ethics of Lying -- "I Exaggerate" -- "Three Blind Mice" -- "Learning to Fall" -- The Supermarket Incident -- "Sincerely, Yours" -- A Corpus Callostomy -- "The Cherry Tree". "How to Market this Book" -- Breach of Narrative Promise? -- "Amazing Grace" -- Love Works Like this -- The 60,000 Dog -- Playing House -- Opening Skinner's Box -- All in the Family -- Blue Dreams -- Leaving Readers with Question Marks -- 6-"I Cannot Separate Her Homophobia from My Own": Andrew Solomon and The Noonday Demon -- Training in English and Psychology -- A Stone Boat -- Homophobia -- Assisted Suicide -- The Noonday Demon -- Seeking Insights from Literature and Philosophy -- Poetic Prose -- The Timing of Solomon's Depression -- The Internalized Mother -- "Curing" Homosexuality -- Psychopharmacology -- ndeup: "You are Free of Your Spirits" -- Acknowledging Father -- Far from the Tree -- Becoming a Father -- Far and Away -- Writing -- 7-"Someone Acts Through My Brain": Elyn R. Saks and The Center Cannot Hold -- Saks and Millett -- The Hidden Personal Element Behind Scholarship -- "A Few Little Quirks" -- The Question of Confidentiality -- "Elizabeth Jones"/Martha Harris -- The Fundamental Rule -- Termination -- "Joseph White"/Stanley W. Jackson -- A Psychoanalytic Researcher -- "Kaplan" -- The Lady of the Charts -- Failing Fathers -- Capgras Syndrome -- Jekyll on Trial -- Interpreting Interpretation -- Terminating Analysis with Kaplan -- Refusing Care -- Doctors Freed/Fried -- Life with and without a Regulator -- Dr King -- Hope for the Future -- Conclusion: The Challenges of Reading Mad Memoirs -- Elizabeth Costello -- The Contagion Effect -- Contagious Psychiatric Disorders -- "The AX for the Frozen Sea Within Us" -- Reading Oppositionally -- Literary Detectives -- A Lifeline -- Bibliography -- Works Cited* -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910954142903321 |
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Berman Jeffrey
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| Bingley, England : , : Emerald Publishing, , [2019] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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