Depression and narrative : telling the dark /
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| Imprint: | Albany : SUNY Press, c2008. |
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| Description: | xi, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7413981 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Depression and Narrative
- I. Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma
- Chapter 1. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions
- Chapter 2. The Language of Madness: Representing Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Kate Millett's The Loony-Bin Trip
- Chapter 3. Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression
- Chapter 4. "Repenting Prodigal": Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper's Adelphi
- Chapter 5. Leonid Andreev's Construction of Melancholy
- II. Gender and Depression
- Chapter 6. Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Tracy Thompson
- Chapter 7. "Addiction got me what I needed": Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Memoirs
- Chapter 8. Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression
- Chapter 9. Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression
- III. Depression across the Media
- Chapter 10. A Dark Web: Depression, Writing, and the Internet
- Chapter 11. A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film The Hours
- Chapter 12. Therapy Culture and TV: The Sopranos as a Depression Narrative
- IV. Literary Therapies
- Chapter 13. For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant
- Chapter 14. Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- V. Depression and the Limits of Narrative
- Chapter 15. Writing Self/Delusion: Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The Shutter of Snow
- Chapter 16. Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History
- List of Contributors
- Index
