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Starting to speak : madness and the narration of identity [PDF]
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]
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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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
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ORALITY AS THE REPRESENTATION OF MADNESS IN THE POEM HOWL BY ALLEN GINSBERG
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
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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
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The Madness of Microbiome: Attempting To Find Consensus “Best Practice” for 16S Microbiome Studies
The development and continuous improvement of high-throughput sequencing platforms have stimulated interest in the study of complex microbial communities.
J. Pollock +3 more
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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
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Il soggetto della narrazione psichiatrica
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
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Margery Kempe: Madwoman or Mystic – A Narrative Approach to the Representation of Madness and Mysticism in Medieval England [PDF]
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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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
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