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Madness and creativity in literature and culture

Saunders, Corrine, 1963-

Madness and creativity in literature and culture

Saunders, Corrine, 1963-

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

xiv, 244 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Introduction / Corinne Saunders and Jane Macnaughton -- 1. Madness and creativity : communication and excommunication / Roy Porter -- 2. Doctors as performance artists / Michael O'Donnell -- 3. Madness in literature : device and understanding / Robin Downie -- 4. 'The thoghtful maladie' : madness and vision in medieval writing / Corinne Saunders -- 5. 'Inexpressibly dreadful' : depression, confession and language in eighteenth-century Britain / Allan Ingram -- 6. Wonders in the deep : Cowper, melancholy and religion / Stephen Sykes -- 7. 'Mad as a refuge from unbelief' : Blake and the sanity of dissidence / David Fuller -- 8. 'Why then Ile fit you' : poetry and madness from Wordsworth to Berryman / Michael O'Neill -- 9. Madness, medicine and creativity in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain / Martyn Evans -- 10. Creative writers and psychopathology : the cultural consolations of 'the wound and the bow' thesis / Patricia Waugh -- 11. The myth of the artist / Al Alvarez.

12. On writing madness / A. S. Byatt and Ignes Sodre -- 13. Breaking down or breaking out? / Pat Barker and Adam Piette.

English literature -- History and criticism.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Mentally ill, Writings of the -- History and criticism.

Authorship -- Psychological aspects.

Literature -- Psychological aspects.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Authors, English -- Psychology.

Literature and mental illness.

Mental illness in literature.

Mentally ill in literature.

Saunders, Corrine, 1963-

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy
IIEMSA	General Books	33168015759257	820.93561 S257M 2005	1