Contents
Introduction
Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness
Literary Theories and the Concept of Madness
Are Creative Writers Mad? An Empirical Perspective
Through a Lens, Darkly
A Horneyan Approach to American Literature
The Lineage of Mad Scientists: Anti-types of Merlin
Madness, Masochism and Morality: Dostoyevsky and His Underground Man
Hamiet: Madness and the Eye of the Reader
Vision, Madness, Myth and William Blake
Postmortem Diagnoses of Virginia Woolf's "Madness":
The Precarious Quest for Truth
Herman Melville and "The Sane Madness of Vital Truth"
Inmates Running the Asylum:
The Institution in Contemporary Ameriean Fiction
Faulkner and the Furies
Images of the Shaman in the Works of Kurt Vonnegut
Stephen King's Misery: Manie Depression and Creativity
The Class Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Theme Course on "Madness in Literature"
Contributors