Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse by Horton, S. Stone

Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137381651)

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Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse by Horton, S. Stone

Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse

$54.99
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse by Horton, S. Stone

Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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How does affective madness influence the social understanding of writers and other artists, or shape the creative act itself? In a 15-year longitudinal study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a study little known outside of psychiatry, 80 per cent of the writers reported either living with, or having had a lifetime incidence of, an affective disorder (depression or manic depression), as opposed to only 30 per cent of non-writer controls. Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the age-old mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection, and contemporary neuroscience. These essays explore how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.

Author: S. Stone Horton
ISBN-10: 1137381655
ISBN-13: 9781137381651
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2013
Pages: 145
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By S. Stone Horton
By S. Stone Horton
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Lise Bagoley, Duquesne University, USA David Bahr, The City University of New York, USA Nancer Ballard, Brandeis University, USA Jessica De Santa, University of St. Andrews, UK Joann Deiudicibus, The State University of New York, USA Stephanie Stone Horton, Georgia State University, USA Marya Hornbacher, USA Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College, USA Stephen Newton, William Paterson University, USA Jeannie Parker Beard, Georgia State University, USA

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