Writing Madness

Author : Shoshana Felman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804744492
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Madness written by Shoshana Felman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307275906
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes written by David Grann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to be a superb storyteller. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann takes the reader around the world, revealing a gallery of rogues and heroes with their own particular fixations who show that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Author : Mary Ruefle
Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness, Rack, and Honey written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -The Kenyon Review Profound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... —Publishers Weekly This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. —Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —San Francisco Examiner Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include "Poetry and the Moon," "Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World," and "Lectures I Will Never Give." Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.

Author : Patrick McGrath
Publisher : Centipede Press
ISBN 13 : 9781613471944
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Madness written by Patrick McGrath and published by Centipede Press. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large collection of stories, essays, and reviews by Gothic novelist Patrick McGrath. Illustrated.

Author : Lisa Spieker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644845
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Madness, Writing Normalcy written by Lisa Spieker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people's reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about "the mad" in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.

Author : Leon Z. Surmelian
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Techniques of Fiction Writing written by Leon Z. Surmelian and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Ingram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230510892
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing written by A. Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Constructions of Madness in the Eighteenth Century deals with the (mis)representation of insanity through a substantial range of literary forms and figures from across the eighteenth century and beyond. Chapters cover the representation, distortion, sentimentalization and elevation of insanity, and such associated issues as gender, personal identity, and performance, in some of the best, as well as some of the least, known writers of the period. A selection of visual material, including works by Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray, is also discussed. While primarily adopting a literary focus, the work is informed throughout by an alertness to significant issues of medical and psychiatric history.

Author : Rebecca Shannonhouse
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375755020
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Her Mind written by Rebecca Shannonhouse and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Her Mind, edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse, captures the best literature by and about women struggling with madness. A remarkable chronicle of gifted and unconventional women who have spun their inner turmoil into literary gold, the collection features classic short stories, breathtaking literary excerpts, key historical writings, and previously unpublished letters by Zelda Fitzgerald. Shannonhouse’s recent anthology, Under the Influence: The Literature of Addiction, is also available as a Modern Library Paperback Original.

Author : Alissa R. Torres
Publisher : Villard Books
ISBN 13 : 0345500695
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Widow written by Alissa R. Torres and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Alissa Torres, whose husband was killed in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and her legal and psychological battles over his death.

Author : Suzanne Dow
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039115402
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madness in Twentieth-century French Women's Writing written by Suzanne Dow and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women's writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc's L'Asphyxie (1946), Marguerite Duras's Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964), Simone de Beauvoir's 'La Femme rompue' (1967), Marie Cardinal's Les Mots pour le dire (1975), Jeanne Hyvrard's Les Prunes de Cythère (1975) and Mère la mort (1976). The discussion traces the evolution in the way madness is taken up by women authors from the key period starting just prior to the emergence of second-wave feminism and culminating at the height of the écriture féminine project. This study argues that madness offers itself up to these authors as a powerful means to convey a certain ambivalence towards changing contemporary ideas on the authority of authorship. On the one hand a highly enabling means to figure transgression, the madwoman is equally the repository for a twentieth-century 'anxiety of authorship' on the part of the woman writer.