Depression and Narrative Telling the Dark

Name: Depression and Narrative Telling the Dark
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ISBN: 9780791475706

ISBN-10: 0791475700

ISBN-13: 9780791475706

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hilary Clark

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Description:

How the story of depression gets told in print, on screen, and online.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Depression and Narrative


Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma


My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions


The Language of Madness: Representing Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Kate Millett's The Loony-Bin Trip


Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression


"Repenting Prodigal": Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper's Adelphi


Leonid Andreev's Construction of Melancholy


Gender and Depression


Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Gluck, and Tracy Thompson


"Addiction got me what I needed": Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Memoirs


Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression


Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression


Depression across the Media


A Dark Web: Depression, Writing, and the Internet


A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film The Hours


Therapy Culture and TV: The Sopranos as a Depression Narrative


Literary Therapies


For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant


Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


Depression and the Limits of Narrative


Writing Self/Delusion: Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman's The Shutter of Snow


Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History


List of Contributors


Index