Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark

Depression and Narrative......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Illustrations......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction: Depression and Narrative......Page 15
I. Negotiating Illness Identity and Stigma......Page 27
1. My Symptoms, Myself: Reading Mental Illness Memoirs for Identity Assumptions......Page 29
2. The Language of Madness: Representing Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison’s AN UNQUIET MIND and Kate Millett’s......Page 43
3. Winter Tales: Comedy and Romance Story-Types in Narratives of Depression......Page 55
4. “Repenting Prodigal”: Confession, Conversion, and Shame in William Cowper’s ADELPHI......Page 69
5. Leonid Andreev’s Construction of Melancholy......Page 81
II. Gender and Depression......Page 95
6. Storying Sadness: Representations of Depression in the Writings of Sylvia Plath, Louise Glück,and Tracy Thompson......Page 97
7. “Addiction got me what I needed”: Depression and Drug Addiction in Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Memoirs......Page 111
8. Narrating the Emotional Woman: Uptake and Gender in Discourses on Depression......Page 125
9. Fact Sheets as Gendered Narratives of Depression......Page 141
III. Depression across the Media......Page 157
10. A Dark Web: Depression, Writing, and the Internet......Page 159
11. A Meditation on Depression, Time, and Narrative Peregrination in the Film THE HOURS......Page 171
12. Therapy Culture and TV: THE SOPRANOS as a Depression Narrative......Page 179
IV. Literary Therapies......Page 191
13. For the Relief of Melancholy: The Early Chinese Novel as Antidepressant......Page 193
14. Manic-Depressive Narration and the Hermeneutics of Countertransference: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner......Page 209
V. Depression and the Limits of Narrative......Page 225
15. Writing Self / Delusion: Subjectivity and Scriptotherapy in Emily Holmes Coleman’s THE SHUTTER OF SNOW......Page 227
16. Depressing Books: W. G. Sebald and the Narratives of History......Page 243
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 257
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