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Affective Disorder and the Writing Life - The Melancholic Muse (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,502
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Affective Disorder and the Writing Life - The Melancholic Muse (Hardcover, New): S. Stone Horton

Affective Disorder and the Writing Life - The Melancholic Muse (Hardcover, New)

S. Stone Horton

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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 a " and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.

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Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2013
First published: November 2013
Editors: S. Stone Horton
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 145
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-38165-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-137-38165-5
Barcode: 9781137381651

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