Depression and narrative : telling the dark / edited by Hilary Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Hilary, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melancholy in literature.

Depression, Mental, in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 262 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-7759-2

1-4356-8687-X

OCLC:

297115625