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