I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs)
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-14-2090
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Dostovesky Wannabe
- ISBN
- 9798603370200
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- I will show you the life of a mind (on prescription drugs) draws on research into formalist, surrealist and modernist literary practices to present an inventive, interdisciplinary assemblage that combines fiction, poetry, and illustration; its use of the second person positions the reader as protagonist in a nightmarish exploration of the relationship between mind and body. Building on the compositional invention of Fowler’s previous collections by using visual poetry, allusion, and playful reference, it extends these interconnective techniques by restaging the well-known ‘choose your own adventure’ genre in order to expose the dead-ends and lack of choice that often accompany medical treatment. The work was developed in the course of a project on neuropoetics, with Fowler’s Wellcome Collection residency enabling his attendance at neuroscience seminars in Salzburg and Berlin and facilitating poetry workshops with neurodiverse participants. This academic and practical research placed art in dialogue with science to foster an extensive consideration of contemporary mental health crises, their association with physical illness, and poetry’s role in medical ethics. These issues are further elaborated in Fowler’s Poet Brut project, a series of poetry events begun in 2017 and which represents ‘a mindful thinking through of the potentials and possibilities of neurological and physiological diversity for a literature’.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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