Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness

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Contents Introduction Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness 1 Branimir M. Rieger Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness 17 Robert de Beaugrande Are Creative Writers Madl An Empirical Perspective 33 Martin S. Lindauer Through a Lens, Darkly 49 Michael Fleming and Roger Manvell A Horneyan Approach to American Literature S9 James R. Huffman The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-types of Merlin 71 Peter H. Goodrich Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevskyand His Underground Man 89 Thomas C. Fiddick Hamlet: Madness and the Eye of the Reader 101 Michael Cohen Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake 113 Paul Youngquist Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's "Madness": The Precarious Quest for Truth 133 Nancy Topping Bazin Herman Melville and lIThe Sane Madness of Vital Truth" 149 Alisa von Brentano Inmates Running the Asylum: The Institution in Contemporary American Fiction 169 Barbara Tepa Lupack Faulkner and the Furies 183 Kenneth L. Golden Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut 197 Lawrence R. Broer Stephen King's Misery: Manic Depression and Creativity 209 Carol A. Senf The Class Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Theme Course on IIMadness in Literature" 221 Branimir M. Rieger Contributors 231 ...