Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning
How do you write your life story when readers expect you not to make sense? How do you write a case history that makes sense when, face to face with schizophrenia, your ability to tell a diagnostic story begins to fall apart? This book examines work in several genres of life writing-autobiography, memoir, case history, autobiographical fiction-focused either on what it means to live with schizophrenia or what it means to understand and 'treat' people who have received that diagnosis. Challenging the romanticized connection between literature and madness, Life Writing and Schizophrenia explores how writers who hear voices and experience delusi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-90-420-3684-0
- EAN: 9789042036840
- Produktnummer: 15308551
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 353 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.4 cm 703 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 90
- Gewicht: 703
Über den Autor
Mary Wood is the author of The Writing on the Wall: Women's Autobiography and the Asylum (University of Illinois Press, 1994) and has published articles on autobiography, case history, literature and psychiatry, and narrative ethics in Narrative, British Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, and American Literary Realism. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.
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