Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781905816378)

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Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness

$98.00
Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness by Gammelgaard, Lasse R.

Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness

$98.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Lasse R. Gammelgaard
ISBN-10: 1905816375
ISBN-13: 9781905816378
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
By Lasse R. Gammelgaard
By Lasse R. Gammelgaard
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Lasse R. Gammelgaard is assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. He obtained his PhD at Aarhus University in 2013 with a dissertation on narrative and poetry. He is co-director of the research group Health, Media and Narrative at Aarhus University. He is author of the high school textbook Galskab i litteraturen [Madness in Literature]. His articles appear in Narrative, Style, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui and Journal of Research in Sickness and Society among others.

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