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Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness - Language, Discourse and Mental Health
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness - Language, Discourse and Mental Health
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.
320 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 4, 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781905816378 |
Publishers | University of Exeter Press |
Pages | 302 |
Dimensions | 242 × 163 × 26 mm · 626 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Gammelgaard, Lasse R. |