Madness in Fiction (eBook)

Mark Axelrod is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English at Chapman University, USA, Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, and Editor of Mantissa, the literary journal of the Fowles Center. He has won a number of fiction and film awards, as well as Fulbrights and NEA grants, and has published extensively in fiction, non-fiction, film, and literary criticism. His publications include Poetics of Prose (Palgrave, 2016) and Notions of the Feminine (Palgrave, 2015).

Foreword: A Mad Introduction, of Sorts 6
Summaries 8
The Madness of Insult in Poe’s Cask of Amontillado 8
The Madness of Starvation in Hamsun’s Hunger 8
The Madness of Madness in Hesse’s Steppenwolf 9
The Madness of Marginalization in Kafka’s the Metamorphosis 10
The Madness of Romantic Obsession in Fowles’ The Collector 11
Contents 12
List of Tables 13
The Madness of Insult in Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado 14
Works Consulted 28
The Madness of Starvation in Hamsun’s Hunger 30
Works Consulted 53
The Madness of Marginalization in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis 54
Works Consulted 70
The Madness of Madness in Hesse’s The Steppenwolf 72
Harry Haller’s Records: “For Madmen Only” 76
Treatise on the Steppenwolf (Steppenwolf, 41) 80
Works Consulted 88
The Madness of Romantic Obsession in Fowles’ The Collector 90
Works Consulted 103
A Mad Ending, of Sorts 105
Index 106