Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness

ISBN-13: 9781474418218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Patricia Moran

Opis

By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, 'Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness' proposes a new model for reading White.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Beast in White’s Jungle: Manic-Depressive Illness; 2. ‘I am a schizophrene’: Narrative Identity, Affective Disorder and White’s Stories of Self; 3. Masterplots: Psychoanalysis and Catholicism; 4. An Unfinished Story: White’s Fictional Stories of Self; Epilogue: Composing a Self.