Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark

Author:   Hilary Clark ,  Hilary Clark ,  Hilary Clark
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791475706


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   01 July 2009
Format:   Paperback
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This title shows how the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.

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Author:   Hilary Clark ,  Hilary Clark ,  Hilary Clark
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780791475706


ISBN 10:   0791475700
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   01 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Depression and Narrative Hilary Clark I. Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma 1. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions Jennifer Radden 2. 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 3. Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression Brenda Dyer 4. ""Repenting Prodigal"": Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper's Adelphi Hilary Clark 5. Leonid Andreev's Construction of Melancholy Frederick H. White II. Gender and Depression 6. Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Tracy Thompson Suzanne England, Carol Ganzer, and Carol Tosone 7. ""Addiction got me what I needed"": Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Memoirs Joanne Muzak 8. Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression Kimberly Emmons 9. Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression Linda M. McMullen III. Depression across the Media 10. A Dark Web:Depression, Writing, and the Internet Kiki Benzon 11. A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film The Hours Diane R. Wiener 12. Therapy Culture and TV: The Sopranos as a Depression Narrative Deborah Staines IV. Literary Therapies 13. For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant Andrew Schonebaum 14. Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Mark A. Clark V. Depression and the Limits of Narrative 15. Writing Self/Delusion:Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The Shutter of Snow Sophie Blanch 16. Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History Eluned Summers-Bremner List of Contributors Index"

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The number of scholarly books on depression is growing, perhaps because mood disorders are now so common, but Depression and Narrative is uncommonly interesting and insightful. Hilary Clark has assembled a volume that focuses on how writers attempt to describe anguish that is at times indescribable. Combining theoretical sophistication and close reading, the contributors cast much light on a dark subject. -- Jeffrey Berman


Author Information

Hilary Clark is Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the coeditor (with Joseph Adamson) of Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Dwelling of Weather; More Light; and Two Heavens.

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