Madness as a Literary Structure and Form A Spatial Study of Narratives

Abstract

The study is towards an aesthetic negotiation of the literary design of madness. The newlinemonological implications of finality often culminate madness in the consciousnesses that newlinefail to belong. In literary narratives, madness can be witnessed as an erratic urge to mimic newlineand repeat the dogmas, doctrines and paradigms of various monologues in a system. newlineBakhtin s emphasis on a monologue s totalitarianism can also be interpreted as a manner newlinein which writers of madness have given empirical doubts as soliloquies to the madman newlineand also, confrontational audacity to the diabolically dialogical madman. The three newlineliterary stages of negotiating madness: one where the madman is cultivated by a newlinemonologue s representation as a self-annihilating being who despises his/her own self newlinewith an irrational will to be appropriated, the other where the madman platforms a doubt newlineon the stage of reality as a mere soliloquy that is empirically profound and has sustainable newlinepotential of being organic, and another where the madman harnesses the audacity to etch newlinea dialogical space in order to emphasise that his/her diabolical self craves no longer for newlineapproval and graciously employees the master s tools to aesthetically dismantle the newlinemaster s house with a wish to make space for a zone of occult instability. Much like the newlinemonological consciousnesses, the madman also silences other consciousness but, unlike newlinethe monological utterances of effacing different perspectives, the madman honors silence newlineunto others to present them with an existential chance of self realisation where they can newline