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Affective disorder and the writing life : = the melancholic muse /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Affective disorder and the writing life :/ edited by Stephanie Stone Horton.
Reminder of title:	the melancholic muse /
other author:	Stone Horton, Stephanie,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Affective disorders. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137381668
ISBN:	1137381663 (electronic bk.)

Affective disorder and the writing life : = the melancholic muse /
Affective disorder and the writing life :the melancholic muse /edited by Stephanie Stone Horton. - 1 online resource.

PART I: "COULD IT BE MADNESS, THIS?" AFFECTIVE DIFFERENCE AND THE WORK OF COMPOSITION -- 1. 'What Ceremony of Words Can Patch the Havoc?': Writing, Madness, and Neurodiversity; Stephanie Stone Horton -- 2. Muse Afire: Negotiating the Line Between Creative Pursuit and Mental Illness; Nancer Ballard -- 3. After the Fire Goes Out: Writing Before and After Treatment for Affective Disorder; Lise Bagoley -- 4. Gaps on the Vita; Sharon O'Brien -- 5. Lunatic; Jeannie Parker Beard -- PART II: "THEIR LIVES A STORM WHEREON THEY RIDE": AFFECTIVE (DIS)ORDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION -- 6. Axing the Frozen Sea: Female Inscriptions of Madness; Joann K. Deiudicibus -- 7. The Things We Carry: Embodied Truth and Tim O' Brien's Poetics of Despair; David Bahr -- 8. 'The Incessant Rise and Fall and Fall and Rise': Virginia Woolf's Treading the Waves; Jessica De Santa -- 9. The Fire, The Dark, and the Beautiful Distance; Stephen Newton.

How does affective madness influence the social understanding of writers and other artists, or shape the creative act itself? In a 15-year longitudinal study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a study little known outside of psychiatry, 80 per cent of the writers reported either living with, or having had a lifetime incidence of, an affective disorder (depression or manic depression), as opposed to only 30 per cent of non-writer controls. "Affective Disorder and the Writing Life" interrogates the age-old mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection, and contemporary neuroscience. These essays explore how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind -- and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.

ISBN: 1137381663 (electronic bk.)

Source: 713177Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

1006142
Affective disorders.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC537

Dewey Class. No.: 616.852700888

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