Literal Madness

Author : Kathy Acker
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802146601

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Literal Madness by Kathy Acker Pdf

A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: “Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.” —Catherine Texier, author of Victorine Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined” (Los Angeles Times). My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini—wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters—is a “scathing commentary on false values in art” (The Hartford Courant). In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves “a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials” (Booklist). “There’s a haunting method to Acker’s ‘madness’: a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Howard Yosha
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557609192

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Millennium Madness Can Not Compare to Literal Madness by Howard Yosha Pdf

Millennium Madness begins a downward spiral into madness for the author. Poetry describing the pain, wild life events and agong on not finding a cuse for his suffering.Yosha is a Self published writer, poet, and fine artist. His creative products can be found at: www.HowardYosha.com ; including art at www.howardeyosha.etsy.com,; a collection of self published poetry chapbooks titled Illumination Millennium published by Author House, graphic T-shirts, bags, jackets, calendars, postcards and many other items on Cafepress.com.

Author : Kathy Acker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036685426

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Literal Madness by Kathy Acker Pdf

Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527568488

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Creativity, Madness and Civilisation by Richard Pine Pdf

What is ‘creativity’? And what is ‘madness’? How far can we interpret an artist’s work through our knowledge of his or her mental state, and how far can we infer a mental state from a work of art? When does a work of art cease to be a personal statement by the artist and become a matter of public concern? The contributions to this book attempt to answer some of these questions. They come from a wide range of disciplines and experiences – a practising psychiatrist, a practising artist suffering from reactive depression, and critics working in literature, film, music and the visual arts. The essays include discussions of the ‘myth of creativity’, the music of Robert Schumann, the borders of sanity in the writing of Lawrence Durrell, the ‘insane truth’ of Virginia Woolf, the meeting of doctor and patient in the poetry of Anne Sexton, mood disorders in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, love and madness in the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz, and the paintings of Adolf Wölfli. Central to this discussion of creativity, madness and civilisation is the difficulty of establishing an appropriate and effective vocabulary and mindset between critics and clinical psychiatrists, which would enable them to work together in understanding mental disturbance in creative artists.

Author : Nicola Spelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317078135

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Popular Music and the Myths of Madness by Nicola Spelman Pdf

Studies of opera, film, television, and literature have demonstrated how constructions of madness may be referenced in order to stigmatise but also liberate protagonists in ways that reinforce or challenge contemporaneous notions of normality. But to date very little research has been conducted on how madness is represented in popular music. In an effort to redress this imbalance, Nicola Spelman identifies links between the anti-psychiatry movement and representations of madness in popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, analysing the various ways in which ideas critical of institutional psychiatry are embodied both verbally and musically in specific songs by David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, The Beatles, and Elton John. She concentrates on meanings that may be made at the point of reception as a consequence of ideas about madness that were circulating at the time. These ideas are then linked to contemporary conventions of musical expression in order to illustrate certain interpretative possibilities. Supporting evidence comes from popular musicological analysis - incorporating discourse analysis and social semiotics - and investigation of socio-historical context. The uniqueness of the period in question is demonstrated by means of a more generalised overview of songs drawn from a variety of styles and eras that engage with the topic of madness in diverse and often conflicting ways. The conclusions drawn reveal the extent to which anti-psychiatric ideas filtered through into popular culture, offering insights into popular music's ability to question general suppositions about madness alongside its potential to bring issues of men's madness into the public arena as an often neglected topic for discussion.

Author : Nicola Pitchford
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838754872

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Tactical Readings by Nicola Pitchford Pdf

Both writers' novels borrow heavily from other authors, and in doing so they offer strategies for a politically committed rereading of literary history and its interaction with the popular imagination.".

Author : Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719045886

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Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Duncan Salkeld Pdf

Author : Jay Neugeboren
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0520228758

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Transforming Madness by Jay Neugeboren Pdf

In Imagining Robert, Jay Neugeboren told the sad, deeply personal, often harrowing story of one man and one family's struggle with chronic mental illness. Now, he presents an overview of the entire field: a clear-eyed, articulate, comprehensive survey of our mental health care system's shortcomings and of new, effective, proven approaches that make real differences in the lives of millions of Americans afflicted with severe mental illness. A book for general readers and professionals alike, Transforming Madness is at once a critique, a message of hope and recovery, and a call to action. Filled with dramatic stories, it shows us the many ways in which people who have suffered the long-term ravages of psychiatric disorders have reclaimed full and viable lives.

Author : Patrick Crowley,Shirley Jordan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624755

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What Forms Can Do by Patrick Crowley,Shirley Jordan Pdf

How does form propose a bridge between the text and the world beyond? This volume investigates the agency of form across a spectrum of twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone writings, renewing the engagement with form that has been a key feature of French cultural production and of analysis in French studies.

Author : Arthur Michael Saltzman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1570033269

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This Mad "instead" by Arthur Michael Saltzman Pdf

Saltzman reveals figuration to be both inevitable and inevitably unreliable, and he illustrates how these writers treat this condition not as an impasse but as a point of departure - indeed, as an artistic mandate and creative opportunity.".

Author : Lisa M. Dresner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786426546

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The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture by Lisa M. Dresner Pdf

In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television and film.

Author : R. P. Winnington-Ingram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980-02-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521296846

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Sophocles: An Interpretation by R. P. Winnington-Ingram Pdf

A series of interconnected studies which analyze the seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles.

Author : Gareth D. Williams,Katharina Volk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199999774

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Roman Reflections by Gareth D. Williams,Katharina Volk Pdf

When the Romans adopted Greek literary genres and artistic techniques, they did not slavishly imitate their models but created vibrant and original works of literature and art in their own right. The same is true for philosophy, notwithstanding the fact that the rich Roman philosophical tradition is still all too often treated as a mere footnote to the history of Greek philosophy. This volume aims to reassert the significance of Roman philosophy and to explore the "Romanness" of philosophical writings and practices in the Roman world, endeavoring to show that the Romans in their creative adaptation of Greek modes of thought developed sophisticated forms of philosophical discourse shaped by their own history and institutions, concepts, and values--and last--but not least--by the Latin language, which nearly all Roman philosophers used to express their ideas. This volume of thirteen chapters by an international group of specialists in ancient philosophy, Latin literature, and Roman social and intellectual history moves from Roman attitudes to and practices of philosophy to the great late Republican writers Cicero and Lucretius, then onwards to the early Empire and the work of Seneca the Younger, and finally to Epictetus, Apuleius, and Augustine. Using a variety of approaches, the essays demonstrate the diversity and originality of Roman philosophical discourse over the centuries.

Author : Mark S. Bauer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195336405

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A Mind Apart by Mark S. Bauer Pdf

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Author : Richard Gaskin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000849202

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Othello and the Problem of Knowledge by Richard Gaskin Pdf

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with traditional sceptical problems, and in particular with the problem of other minds. In this book, Richard Gaskin argues that the play does indeed connect in interesting—but also in surprising and so far relatively unexplored—ways with traditional epistemological concerns. Shakespeare presupposes a generally Wittgensteinian model of mind as revealed in behaviour, and communication as necessarily successful in general. Gaskin examines different epistemological models of the tragedy, and argues that it is useful to apply materials from Wittgenstein’s On Certainty to the analysis of Othello’s loss of confidence in Desdemona’s fidelity: Othello treats Desdemona’s fidelity as a ‘hinge certainty’, something that is so fundamental to the language-game that abandoning it results—so Wittgenstein predicts—in chaos and madness. The tragedy arises, Gaskin suggests, from treating the wrong kind of thing as a hinge certainty. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of literature, Shakespeare, and Wittgenstein.