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To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, this work examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. It shows how literary interpretations of madness, as well as madness itself, reflect the very cultural assumptions, values, and prohibitions they challenge.

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"A remarkable scholarly achievement. Madness in Literature remains refreshingly free of narrow dogmatizing and special pleading."--Jeffrey Berman, English Language Notes "Madness is studied by Lillian Feder in its relationship with society--whether the madness be prophetic or dionysiac, as in ancient Greece, or of the form that leads to suicide, as in the contemporary cases of Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath. With considerable erudition, which is never pompously exposed, Miss Feder has played simultaneously the roles of literary critic, of psychoanalyst, and of cultural historian."--Wallace Fowlie, The Sewanee Review

Madness in Literature

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 21 March 1983
      ISBN-13 9780691014012
      978-0691014012
      ISBN-10 0691014019

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      Book Synopsis
      To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, this work examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. It shows how literary interpretations of madness, as well as madness itself, reflect the very cultural assumptions, values, and prohibitions they challenge.

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      "A remarkable scholarly achievement. Madness in Literature remains refreshingly free of narrow dogmatizing and special pleading."--Jeffrey Berman, English Language Notes "Madness is studied by Lillian Feder in its relationship with society--whether the madness be prophetic or dionysiac, as in ancient Greece, or of the form that leads to suicide, as in the contemporary cases of Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath. With considerable erudition, which is never pompously exposed, Miss Feder has played simultaneously the roles of literary critic, of psychoanalyst, and of cultural historian."--Wallace Fowlie, The Sewanee Review

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