Dancing with Ophelia
(March 2018)
Reconnecting Madness, Creativity, and Love Jeanne Ellen Petrolle - Author
A personal narrative that explores madness through the use of literature, art, and philosophy to achieve lasting mental health without drugs.
“Twenty-two years ago, I lost my mind.” So begins Jeanne Ellen Petrolle’s fascinating personal narrative about her mental illness and recovery. Drawing on literature, art, and philosophy, Petrolle explores a unique understanding of madness that allowed her to achieve last...(Read More)
Religion without Belief
(November 2007)
Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith Jeanne Ellen Petrolle - Author
Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.
In our present cultural moment, when God is supposed to be dead and metaphysical speculation unfashionable, why does postmodern fiction—in a variety of genres—make such frequent use of the ancient rhetorical form of allegory? In Religion without Belief, Jean Ellen Petrolle argues that contrary to popular understandings o...(Read More)
