Matthew Francis

Depersonalization and Creative Writing (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, this volume argues that many well-known literary texts evoke a similar psychological state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000603156
• Artikelnr.: 64096682

Autorenporträt

Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published six poetry collections with Faber & Faber, most recently Wing (2020). He is also the author of two novels, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press, 2014), and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon Press, 2012). He has edited the poems of W.S. Graham for Faber and published a study of Graham, Where the People Are (Salt Publishing, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1
Autobiographical
Chapter 1
Land Without Feelings: A Depersonalization Memoir
Part 2
Psychological
Chapter 2
Like Looking in Fairyland: The History and Pathology of Depersonalization
Chapter 3
The Sound a Noise Makes when it Ceases: The Literature of Depersonalization
Chapter 4
Making the Stone Stony: Depersonalization in Literary Theory
Part 3
Practical
Chapter 5
A Moonlit Interval: Showing and Telling in Fiction
Chapter 6
The Odour of a Rose: Showing and Telling in Poetry
Chapter 7
Crossing the Threshold: Quests, Epiphanies, Liminality