Depression and narrative
Subtitle: telling the dark
By: edited by Hilary Clark.
Contributors: Clark, Hilary Anne, 1955-
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780791475690
Subjects: Melancholy in literature; Depression, Mental, in literature; Mental illness in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: My symptoms, myself : reading mental illness memoirs for identity assumptions / Jennifer Radden; title: 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; title: Winter tales : comedy and romance story-types in narratives of depression / Brenda Dyer; title: "Repenting prodigal" : confession, conversion, and shame in William Cowper's Adelphi / Hilary Clark; title: Leonid Andreev's construction of melancholy / Frederick H. White; title: Storying sadness : representations of depression in the writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück, and Tracy Thompson / Suzanne England, Carol Ganzer, and Carol Tosone; title: "Addiction got me what I needed" : depression and drug addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoirs / Joanne Muzak; title: Narrating the emotional woman : uptake and gender in discourses on depression / Kimberly Emmons; title: Fact sheets as gendered narratives of depression / Linda M. McMullen; title: A dark web : depression, writing, and the Internet / Kiki Benzon; title: A meditation on depression, time, and narrative peregrination in the film The hours / Diane R. Wiener; title: Therapy culture and TV : The Sopranos as a depression narrative / Deborah Staines; title: For the relief of melancholy : the early Chinese novel as antidepressant / Andrew Schonebaum; title: Manic-depressive narration and the hermeneutics of countertransference : Coleridge's The rime of the ancient mariner / Mark A. Clark; title: Writing self/delusion : subjectivity and scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The shutter of snow / Sophie Blanch; title: Depressing books : W.G. Sebald and the narratives of history / Eluned Summers-Bremner.