Mental Disorders in Literary Characters:  Identifying the Real
and the Fake from Modern Literary Perspective

C 2023

Mental Disorders in Literary Characters: Identifying the Real and the Fake from Modern Literary Perspective

ŠKROBÁNKOVÁ, Laura

Basic information

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

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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

Abstract

V originále

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.

Citovat

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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ŠKROBÁNKOVÁ, Laura. Mental Disorders in Literary Characters: Identifying the Real and the Fake from Modern Literary Perspective. In Urbanec, Miroslav / Adamová, Diana. \textit{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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