))
Art and Madness
Manage episode 310174376 series 3049492
Content provided by Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, and Los Angeles. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Professor of Creative Writing, Mount St. Mary's University, and Los Angeles or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
There are studies on the connection between the artistic impulse and mental illness. The best are books written by Kay Redfield Jamison, especially her “Touched With Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.”
In that book, she charts hundreds of writers, from George Gordon Lord Byron to Virginia Woolf, and reveals how the mental illness played a role in their writing.
In this podcast, I speak about my own struggles with manic-depression, and how it has played a role in my own impulse to write, my own need to get words on the page that reflect whatever’s in my head. It relieves the pressure; and, if I’m lucky, it’ll make for a good piece of literature.
29 episodes
Share
