The impossible story: Arthur W. Frank's 'Chaos Narrative' and memoirs of madness

This practice-led project asks: how do writers of madness memoirs represent the discontinuity and incoherence of the madness experience, and how do I, as a writer, approach this? It finds that while the experience of madness is discontinuous and incoherent, writers choose to reconfigure their experiences into traditional narrative forms that adhere to expectations of continuity, coherence, and temporal linearity. As a practice-led project, in interrogating the research question, it comprises an academic exegesis, which employs the theories of sociologist, Arthur W. Frank, to justify discontinuous narrativisation and a madness memoir, entitled The Wolf.