ISBN: 978-88-6806-130-2
This two-volume work offers a richly diversified survey of textualized
madness – its manifestations and operations – from Antiquity to the
present. Approaches embrace historical accounts, contemporary
assessments (Lacanian, Kristevian, Freudian, structuralist,
post-colonial, feminist, hermeneutical, semiotic, among others) as well
as theoretical musings worthy of protracted reflection. Such a vast
panoply of exploratory essays spans, as it must, linguistic,
chronological, temporal, geographic and generic boundaries. Each, in its
own way, takes part in a collective effort to probe the contours and
configurations of an exegetical conundrum that has fascinated and
perplexed, lured and stymied writers and readers since the beginning of
time. Contributors include: Marc Amfreville ● Sophie Bastien ● Caralyn
Bialo ● Daniela Bombara ● Anouck Cape ● Concetta Cavallini ● Albrecht
Classen ● Carmen Concilio ● René Corona ● Valentine Cunningham ● Gaetano
Dammacco ● Pierre Déléage ● Giovanna Devincenzo ● Giovanni Dotoli ●
Simon C. Estok ● Bill Friesen ● Constantin Frosin ● Ryan D. Giles ●
Pasquale Guaragnella ● Ralph Heyndels ● Anna Iatsenko ● Salvatore
Francesco Lattarulo ● Marcella Leopizzi ● Robert E. Lougy ● Paul
Morrison ● M. J. Muratore ● Gillian Ni Cheallaigh ● Maria Nikolajeva ●
Annalisa Pes ● Anita Piscazzi ● Augusto Ponzio ● Tatiana Prorokova ●
Ellie Ragland ● Alain Rey ● Àngels Santa ● Ralph Sarkonak ● Salah Stétié
● Ben Stoltzfus ● Ilda Tomas ● Elisa Tinelli ● Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat ●
Louis Ucciani ● Carlota Vicens-Pujol.
M. J. Muratore
(project director and editor) is Curators’ Distinguished Professor and
Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of
Missouri, Columbia.