A Poetics of Minds and Madness

A Poetics of Minds and Madness
Author: XINRAN YANG
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-10-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9819952492

​This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive science (cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology), it adopts an indirect empirical approach to the fictional representation of madness. The American writer Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is chosen as the primary text of investigation, whereas due consideration is also given to other madness narratives when necessary. This book not only demonstrates the value of reading and rereading literary classics in the modern era, but also sheds light on the studies of cognitive narratology, cognitive poetics, madness narratives and literature in general.

The Poetic Mind

The Poetic Mind
Author: Frederick Clarke Prescott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1922
Genre: Imagination
ISBN:

Electroboy

Electroboy
Author: Andy Behrman
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812967089

The author describes his longtime battle with ills of manic depression, his desperate search for the ultimate high, the art-forgery scandal that confined him to jail and to house arrest, and his decision to opt for the controversial treatment of electroconvulsive therapy to preserve his sanity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Hegel's Theory of Madness

Hegel's Theory of Madness
Author: Daniel Berthold-Bond
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791425053

This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.

A Dream of Mind

A Dream of Mind
Author: C. K. Williams
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466880589

The challenging, exhilarating collection in A Dream of Mind represents an important stage in the evolution of C. K. Williams' work. It is dominated by the long title poem, which explores the materials and qualities of states of consciousness with enormous flexibility and suppleness. Other poems explore jealousy, psychology, family relationships and intellectual constructs.

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Author: Milton Rokeach
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1590173848

On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.”

A Mind Apart

A Mind Apart
Author: Mark S. Bauer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0195336402

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