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Dionysus in literature

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Title Dionysus in literature : essays on literary madness / edited by Branimir M. Rieger.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Creation Date 1994
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content Intro -- Contents -- Introduction Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness -- Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness -- Are Creative Writers Mad? An Empirical Perspective -- Through a Lens, Darkly -- A Horneyan Approach to American Literature -- The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-types of Merlin -- Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevsky and His Underground Man -- Hamiet: Madness and the Eye of the Reader -- Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake -- Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's "Madness": The Precarious Quest for Truth -- Herman Melville and "The Sane Madness of Vital Truth -- Inmates Running the Asylum: The Institution in Contemporary American Fiction -- Faulkner and the Furies -- Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut -- Stephen King's Misery: Manie Depression and Creativity -- The Class Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Theme Course on "Madness in Literature -- Contributors.
Extent 1 online resource (244 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1994
National Library system number 997010707313005171
MARC RECORDS

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