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Mad Muse - The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work (Paperback)
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Mad Muse - The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work (Paperback)
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Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity.
This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of
writers who have lived, worked and created with a mental illness.
Mad Muse examines and unpicks this fascinating relationship,
demonstrating that mental illness is often intergenerational while
the story of mental illness is intertextual. The study begins with
William Styron's iconic memoir Darkness Visible, moving through a
succession of mental illness memoirs from some of the most
important authors in the genre, including Kate Millett, Kay
Redfield Jamison, Linda Sexton, Lauren Slater, Andrew Solomon and
Elyn Saks. From memoirs that blur the boundaries between historical
truth and narrative truth to a first-person account of
schizophrenia, Berman discusses the challenges of reading books
which inspire hope and courage in many readers but may also
sometimes have unintended consequences. In so doing, it illuminates
the complex, co-existing relationship between the arts and mental
health and represents an invaluable contribution to the study of
health humanities.
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