| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Melancholy in literature.
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Depression, Mental, in literature.
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Mental illness in literature.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Depression, Mental, in literature. (OCoLC)fst00890968
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Melancholy in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015655
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Mental illness in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016615
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Clark, Hilary, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Depression and narrative. Albany : SUNY Press, ©2008 9780791475690 0791475697 (DLC) 2007047994 (OCoLC)182962756 |
| ISBN |
9781435686878 (electronic bk.) |
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143568687X (electronic bk.) |
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