Biography (Honolulu), 2007-09, Vol.30 (4), p.465-490
2007
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- AGAINST DEPRESSION: FINAL KNOWLEDGE IN STYRON, MAIRS, AND SOLOMON
- Ist Teil von
- Biography (Honolulu), 2007-09, Vol.30 (4), p.465-490
- Ort / Verlag
- Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press for the Biographical Research Center
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2007
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Project MUSE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- If contemporary depression narratives sometimes allude to the difficulty of representing such an elusive subject as depression, ultimately they purvey an ostensibly "final" knowledge. Reading such narratives by William Styron, Nancy Mairs, and Andrew Solomon, I argue that, in purveying such knowledge, these texts, often presented as "useful," may at the same time reproduce depression's central dilemma—symptomatically reenacting the failure of meaning at depression's center.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0162-4962, 1529-1456eISSN: 1529-1456DOI: 10.1353/bio.2008.0000Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_37030272
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Attitudes, Authors, Autobiographical memory, Autobiography, Biography, Comparative analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Darkness Visible, Depressed persons, Depression, Depressive disorders, Diseases, English Literature, Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939), Genetic variation, Knowledge, Literary techniques, Literature, Mairs, Nancy, Medical diagnosis, Mental depression, Mental health, Mothers, Narrative structure, Narratives, Nonfiction, Pain, Solomon, Andrew, Soul, Styron, Mairs, Mairs, Solomon, William,, Nancy,, Nancy,, Andrew, Styron, William, Styron, William (1925-2006), Suicide, Symptoms, Twentieth Century, United States, Works, Writers