Dionysus after Nietzsche : The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought / Adam Lecznar.
Adam Lecznar author
BookTitle |
Dionysus in literature : essays on literary madness / edited by Branimir M. Rieger. |
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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 |
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