Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work

ISBN-13: 9781789738100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 384 str.

Jeffrey Berman

Opis

Many of the well-respected scholarly studies of autobiographical writing have little or nothing to say about mental illness. This book uncovers the mysterious relationship between mood disorders and creativity through the lives of seven writers, demonstrating how mental illness is sometimes the driving force behind creativity.