- 242 pages
- English
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About this book
In this anthology, outstanding authorities present their assessments of literary madness in a variety of topics and approaches. The entire collection of essays presents intriguing aspects of the Dionysian element in literature.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness
- Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness
- Are Creative Writers Mad? An Empirical Perspective
- Through a Lens, Darkly
- A Horneyan Approach to American Literature
- The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-types of Merlin
- Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevsky and His Underground Man
- Hamiet: Madness and the Eye of the Reader
- Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake
- Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's "Madness": The Precarious Quest for Truth
- Herman Melville and "The Sane Madness of Vital Truth"
- Inmates Running the Asylum: The Institution in Contemporary Ameriean Fiction
- Faulkner and the Furies
- Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut
- Stephen King's Misery: Manie Depression and Creativity
- The Class Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Theme Course on "Madness in Literature"
- Contributors