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Author:   Lasse R. Gammelgaard
Publisher:   University of Exeter Press
Imprint:   University of Exeter Press
Weight:   0.643kg
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9781905816378

ISBN 10:   1905816375
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   04 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Madness and Literature and the Health Humanities Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard DOI: 10.47788/AFZH5419 Part I: Literary History and Socio-Political Perspectives 1. Layla and Majnun in Historical and Contemporary Conceptions of Madness in Islamic Psychology Alan Weber DOI: 10.47788/RRMJ3362 2. The Anti-Psychiatry Ethos in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy Shoshana Benjamin DOI: 10.47788/YEGJ4716 3. Apartheid’s Garden: Dismantling Madness in J.M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K Sebastian C. Galbo DOI: 10.47788/TJNQ3925 4. Sniffs and Dribblers: Poppy Shakespeare and the Identities of Madness Clare Allan DOI: 10.47788/SEHO5518 Part II: Literary Theory and Experiencing Mental Illness 5. Reading Shattering Minds and Extended Selves in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Anna Ovaska DOI: 10.47788/KVCT9727 6. Spill the Words: Speechlessness and Creativity in the Writing of Janet Frame Mary Elene Wood DOI: 10.47788/ZEIP9285 7. Pronominal Shifts and the Confusion of Self with Not-Self Alice Hervé DOI: 10.47788/KQGN8180 8. Rethinking Clinical and Critical Perspectives on Psychosis in Kathy Acker’s Writing Charley Baker DOI: 10.47788/KIQF3977 9. Countering the DSM in Poetry about Bipolar Disorder Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard DOI: 10.47788/GRFK1241 10. Seeing Feeling: Dissociation and Post-Traumatic Memory in the Graphic Novel Perfect Hair Penni Russon DOI: 10.47788/WKFD8677 Part III: Literary Instrumentality and Clinical Psychopathology 11. Writing Therapy, Writing Data: Therapeutic Writing as a Methodological and Ethical Approach in Researching Digital Sexual Assault Signe Uldbjerg DOI: 10.47788/SWBN2997 12. A Question of Context: Sites for Cultural Negotiation in Narratives of Manic Depression Megan Milota DOI: 10.47788/LTVE5090 13. Conscripting Dante: History, Anachronism, and the Uses of Literary Precedents in the ‘New’ Diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder David Orr DOI: 10.47788/QYGF1330 14. Opening Up the Discourse of Male Eating Disorders: Personal Experience in German and English Narratives Heike Bartel DOI: 10.47788/FCMM5517 Afterword Lasse Raaby Gammelgaard DOI: 10.47788/IXUD7033 Notes Index

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There's news here that moves us to reconsider not only what literature can teach us, but how it can teach us, and even be of service to people living with mental illness and those who treat and care for them. Here's a lively and far-reaching contribution to the field of medical humanities. Maura Spiegel, Division of Narrative Medicine, Columbia University A wonderful array of critical and reflective accounts about literature representing mental illness in keeping with a health humanities approach that values interdisciplinary, inclusive and potentially applicable knowledge. Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham An indispensable contribution to the study of literature and madness, the health humanities, and medical humanities. The diverse work in this volume situates the complex and different experiences of literary madness, allowing us to negotiate new definitions of mental illness and its metaphors, dialogue, and plot lines in narrative theory. A must for scholars and students of literature interested in the depiction of mental health in literature. Shahd Alshammari, Assistant Professor of English, Gulf University for Science & Technology

What a wonderful goal, to put literature and psychopathology in dialogue, and I can testify as a psychopathologist, to the extraordinary and enriching achievement of that goal. I have prospered from my engagement with the many complex and enlightening ideas in this book. I cannot recommend this book enough. -- Femi Oyebode, Theory & Psychology Madness and Literature adds new and important insights to an ongoing conversation. A particular accomplishment of the collection is that it does not only talk interdisciplinary talk but also walks the walk... a rich and thought-provoking volume. -- Christina Slopek, Storyworlds

Author Information

Lasse R. Gammelgaard is associate professor at the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is co-director of the research group Health, Media and Narrative. He is author of the high school textbook Galskab i litteraturen [Madness in Literature]. His articles appear in Narrative, Style, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui and Journal of Research in Sickness and Society among others.

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