Description
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
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781905816378
ISBN10: 1905816375
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | General
- Psychology | Mental Health
- Medical | Psychiatry | General
About the Author
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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