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Starting to speak : madness and the narration of identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In this thesis I study the relationship between narrative and identity in the context of narrative representations of 'mental illness' or 'madness'. Through readings of autobiographical and fictional narrative texts, I consider how identity is textually ...
Stone, Brendan
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How Can I Speak of Madness? Narrative and Identity in Memoirs of ‘Mental Illness’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In this paper I examine some of the implications, possibilities, and dangers of addressing the experience of ‘madness’ or ‘mental illness’1 within autobiographical narrative: in particular, I ask how madness can be narrated, or spoken.
Stone, Brendan
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Theme of madness in a short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” by Edgar Allan Poe and in a similarly-named film by Claude Chabrol

open access: yesКогниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2019
The article considers the theme of madness as a cultural phenomenon in its romantic (Edgar Poe) and postmodern (Claude Chabrol) film interpretation. The study is based on the cultural and philosophical concept of madness grounded by Michel Foucault.
Anna Stepanova
doaj   +1 more source

ORALITY AS THE REPRESENTATION OF MADNESS IN THE POEM HOWL BY ALLEN GINSBERG

open access: yesHumaniora, 2013
This paper examines the characteristics of orality as the representation of madness in the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Orality and madness are two major aspects of Beat literary tradition.
Randy Ridwansyah
doaj   +1 more source

Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2021
The main points are related to the cultural-anthropological (Michel Foucault) and theological contextualization of diseases (Jean-Claude Larchet) and their treatment in the Middle Ages.
Ekaterina Todorova
doaj   +1 more source

The Madness of Microbiome: Attempting To Find Consensus “Best Practice” for 16S Microbiome Studies

open access: yesApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018
The development and continuous improvement of high-throughput sequencing platforms have stimulated interest in the study of complex microbial communities.
J. Pollock   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Madness and the demand for recognition: a philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism

open access: yesDisability & Society, 2020
In Madness and the demand for recognition: A philosophical inquiry into identity and mental health activism, Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed synthesizes the documented concerns of Mad Pride activists - ...
A. de Bie
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Il soggetto della narrazione psichiatrica

open access: yesB@belonline, 2020
In this text I develop a new reflection about the relation between madness and therapy. According with the tradition ofthe phenomenological psychiatry and the studies of Michel Foucault, I will discuss the account of madness presupposed by a number of ...
Evelina Praino
doaj   +1 more source

Margery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Historically, the boundaries between madness and mysticism have been characterised by fluidity. However, since the emergence of psychiatry in the 1800s, attempts have been made to place a firm distinction between the two experiences.
Torn, Alison
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Folie et trauma dans Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l’Éthiopie : une esthétique de l’indicible

open access: yesItinéraires, 2019
In stable governments, different public institutions are responsible for containing madness on the margins of society. In the light of normative concepts, madness would be the opposite of reason. However, when the State itself is the source of psychosis,
Aurélia Mouzet
doaj   +1 more source

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