Description
Product ID: | 9781905816378 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Language, Discourse and Mental Health |
Title: | Madness and Literature |
Subtitle: | What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness |
Authors: | Author: Lasse R. Gammelgaard |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Linguistics, linguistics, Literary studies: general, Psychology, Psychiatry, Literary studies: general, Psychology, Psychiatry |
Description: | This book engages with literature's multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives. This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives. |
Imprint Name: | University of Exeter Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Exeter Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-10-04 |