Affective Disorder and the Writing Life [electronic resource] : The Melancholic Muse /
Horton, S. Stone.editor.
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Creative writing.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Creative Writing.
Fiction.