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Writing Madness Writing Normalcy
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Author : Lisa Spieker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-05-12
Writing Madness Writing Normalcy written by Lisa Spieker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people's reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about "the mad" in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.
Writing Madness Writing Normalcy
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Author : Lisa Spieker
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-05-27
Writing Madness Writing Normalcy written by Lisa Spieker and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
What does it mean to be "mad" in contemporary American society? How do we categorize people's reactions to extreme pressures, trauma, loneliness and serious mental illness? Importantly--who gets to determine these classifications, and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through studying an increasingly popular media genre--memoirs of people with mental illnesses. Memoirs, like the ones examined in this book, often respond to stigmatizing tropes about "the mad" in popular culture and engage with concepts in mental health activism and research. This study breaks new academic ground and argues that the featured texts rethink the possibilities of community building and stigma politics. Drawing on literary analysis and sociological concepts, it understands these memoirs as complex, at times even contradictory, approaches to activism.
Robert Lowell In Context
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Author : Thomas Austenfeld
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-04
Robert Lowell In Context written by Thomas Austenfeld and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading The Social In American Studies
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Author : Astrid Franke
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-03-12
Reading The Social In American Studies written by Astrid Franke and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature—understood broadly—to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.
Surviving 30 Days Of Literary Madness
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Author : Caro Kinkead
language : en
Publisher: Caro Kinkead
Release Date : 2016-09-24
Surviving 30 Days Of Literary Madness written by Caro Kinkead and has been published by Caro Kinkead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-24 with categories.
Each November, writers around the world throw sanity to the winds and challenge themselves to write 50,000 words during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), sweating and stressing for 30 days. "Surviving 30 Days of Literary Madness" is a daybook of support, encouragement and the occasional kick in the pants to help make the stress more bearable and keep your eyes focused on your goal. For every day of the madness, there is a quote and essay designed to help keep you going at the keyboard, along with pieces about preparation and the noveling hangover that comes in December. There are also pages for those other moments, when you've fallen slightly behind - or you realize this may not be a year you cross the finish line. No matter how your November novel experience is going, this book will be a companion for each day.
The Sense And Sensibility Of Madness
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Author : Doreen Bauschke
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-05
The Sense And Sensibility Of Madness written by Doreen Bauschke and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with Social Science categories.
This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.
Southern Writers At Century S End
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Author : Jeffrey J. Folks
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Southern Writers At Century S End written by Jeffrey J. Folks and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.
Scarlett S Journal
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Author : Mia jones
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2010-04
Scarlett S Journal written by Mia jones and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Reality Television meets Reality Reading. A quirky read, full of drama, madness, and off beat fun. Being Scarlett Emerson has never been easy. Dealing with memories of a dysfunctional childhood, neurotic parents, being widowed at 23, then losing her first-born at age 11 can be difficult to handle emotional at times. So after years of tears, therapy and medication that didn't work, for her own medicinal purposes, she decided to journal her way to sanity, by giving herself an outlet to express her feelings about day-to-day life, past and present. Keeping nothing silent about how she feels about her life and the people in it. A chronicle of her own fact-based opinions, through wit, grit and charm that can be unpredictable, funny and truly outspoken.
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back
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Author : Naja Marie Aidt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-03-21
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back written by Naja Marie Aidt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Self-Help categories.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE KIRKUS REVIEW AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION & LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE* 'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny 'There is no one quite like Naja Marie Aidt' Valeria Luiselli 'Devastating, angry, challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the love we have for people continues into the world even after they're gone' CultureFly 'A book about death that pulses with life' The Lady 'Fragmented, poetic, informative and truthful, Aidt faces the greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of great elegy writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential' Polly Clark, author of Larchfield and Tiger _______ "I raise my glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!' I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't answer it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?" In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Mallarmé, Plato and other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their torment suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and contests their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow. This palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic, precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear: to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to piecing Carl's life together. Intensely moving and quietly devastating, this is what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve.
Literature And Disability
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Author : Alice Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-11
Literature And Disability written by Alice Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: key debates and issues in disability studies today different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation.