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Author:   S. Stone Horton
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Pivot
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781137381651

ISBN 10:   1137381655
Pages:   145
Publication Date:   29 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: ""COULD IT BE MADNESS, THIS?"" AFFECTIVE DIFFERENCE AND THE WORK OF COMPOSITION 1. 'What Ceremony of Words Can Patch the Havoc?': Writing, Madness, and Neurodiversity; 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's Treading the Waves; Jessica De Santa 9. The Fire, The Dark, and the Beautiful Distance; Stephen Newton"

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Lise Bagoley, Duquesne University, USA David Bahr, The City University of New York, USA Nancer Ballard, Brandeis University, USA Jessica De Santa, University of St. Andrews, UK Joann Deiudicibus, The State University of New York, USA Stephanie Stone Horton, Georgia State University, USA Marya Hornbacher, USA Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College, USA Stephen Newton, William Paterson University, USA Jeannie Parker Beard, Georgia State University, USA

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