Mental health symptoms in literature since modernism. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nicolas Pierre Boileau.
• Authors: Boileau, Nicolas Pierre
• Contents: 1 The Function of Symptoms of 'Mental Health': How Literature Is Situated in the Debate Between Cure and Care.-Part I Doctors' Misdiagnoses: Symptoms, Meaning and Function.-2 Symptomatic Silence: Situating the Subject in Mrs Dalloway.-3 Meaning and Interpretation: The Failure of the Psychiatric Method in Asylum by Patrick McGrath.-4 From Physical Symptoms to Subjective Creations in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy.-Part II The Symptom and the Body: Discreet Signs of Psychological Disorders.-5 The Body as Dangerous Jouissance in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing.-6 AIDS, Manic-Depression and the Symptoms of the 1980s in The Line of Beauty.-Part III Voices, Contemporary Symptoms and SocialCohesion.-7 Voices, Silence and the Body: Cusk's Modernist Explorations of Symptomatic Encounters in the OutlineTrilogy (2014–2018).-8 Ali Smith's Voices: Everyone Is Delirious.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (335 pages)
• Subjects: 809.93353; Mental illness in literature; Literature and mental illness; Modernism (Literature)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031376306
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