Dionysius in Literature

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ISBN: 9780879726508 | 0879726504
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Copyright: 4/1/1994

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In this anthology, outstanding authorities present their assessments of literary madness in a variety of topics and approaches. The entire collection of essays presents intriguing aspects of the Dionysian element in literature.

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Introduction Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness	p. 1
Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness	p. 17
Are Creative Writers Mad? an Empirical Perspective	p. 33
Through a Lens, Darkly	p. 49
A Horneyan Approach to American Literature	p. 59
The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-Types of Merlin	p. 71
Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevsky and His Underground Man	p. 89
Madness and the Eye of the Reader	p. 101
Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake	p. 113
Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's """"Madness"""": the Precarious Quest for Truth	p. 133
Herman Melville and """"The Sane Madness of Vital Truth""""	p. 149
Inmates Running the Asylum: the Institution in Contemporary American Fiction	p. 169
Faulkner and the Furies	p. 183
Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut	p. 197
Stephen King's Misery: Manic Depression and Creativity	p. 209
The Class Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: a Theme Course on """"Madness in Literature""""	p. 221
Contributors	p. 231
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