ŠKROBÁNKOVÁ, Laura. Mental Disorders in Literary Characters: Identifying the Real and the Fake from Modern Literary Perspective. In Urbanec, Miroslav / Adamová, Diana. Text Interpretation from the Perspective of Genre Analysis. Textinterpretation unter gattungsanalytischen Aspekten. Opava: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, 2023, p. 41-67. ISBN 978-80-7510-573-8.
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Original name Mental Disorders in Literary Characters: Identifying the Real and the Fake from Modern Literary Perspective
Authors ŠKROBÁNKOVÁ, Laura (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Opava, Text Interpretation from the Perspective of Genre Analysis. Textinterpretation unter gattungsanalytischen Aspekten, p. 41-67, 27 pp. 2023.
Publisher Slezská univerzita v Opavě
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/23:A0001253
Organization unit Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN 978-80-7510-573-8
Keywords in English mental disorders; literary characters; American literature; modern literature; mental health
Tags SGS122023
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Miroslav Urbanec, Ph.D., učo 25000. Changed: 26/1/2024 10:17.
Abstract
The article discusses four selected American novels that directly or indirectly breach the subject of mental health disorders. Since mental health awareness has been on the rise the past two decades, one of the possible ways of analysis is to focus on the authenticity of the presented mental disorders and attempt to uncover whether they are supposed to reflect their real-life counterparts or whether they have been augmented, potentially inserted into the story, for a specific role within the narrative. While speculative fiction has the freedom of conjuring imaginary diseases, it is important to realize the effect it may have on the general public when one such fictional illness receives the name of an existing one, possibly tainting the image and vilifying the disorder in the eyes of the reader. The aim of the article is to uncover the truthfulness of presented disorders within four characters from pre-selected, albeit well-known, publications, applying modern literary perspective on the matter.
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