{"product_id":"9783032290168","title":"Stories of Madness in Fiction and Memoir","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStories of Madness in Fiction and Memoir\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJennifer Burwell\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThrough an analysis of stories of madness in fiction and memoir, Burwell investigates the following questions: In what ways does madness speak itself in narrative, and what possibilities and constraints frame the voices of mad people? When people speak for and of mad people, what do they say, and is it empowering or disempowering? What systemic structures and societal assumptions inform broader discourses around madness? How are issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, age expressed in stories of madness? Burwell uses the tools of literary criticism, with its attention to narrative form, types of narrators, characterization, genre, and theme, to explore the forms that madness takes in stories as well as the limitations and potential of narratives in general to represent madness. Focusing on the interaction between literature and madness, Burwell considers both how the structures of stories within and beyond literature accommodate themselves to the representation of madness, and how representations of forms of madness accommodate themselves to the forms that stories can take.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eJennifer Burwell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032290168\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49493436563596,"sku":"9783032290168","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032290168.jpg?v=1781089538","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032290168","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}