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Contemporary French fictions of suicide : a medical humanities approach
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dc.contributor.author | Jones, Katie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-13T10:30:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-04-13T10:30:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-10-01 | |
dc.identifier | 275320837 | |
dc.identifier | 52f13dcb-f988-471f-90f6-908824cc08f8 | |
dc.identifier | 000764895100011 | |
dc.identifier | 85162069987 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jones , K 2021 , ' Contemporary French fictions of suicide : a medical humanities approach ' , Essays in French Literature and Culture , no. 58 , pp. 173-190 . < https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.318170949641341 > | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1835-7040 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-6495-9518/work/110423302 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/25180 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper compares Catherine Cusset’s L’autre qu’on adorait (2016) and Régis Jauffret’s Lacrimosa (2008), as examples of 21st-century novels in which suicide is the central focus. Recent texts tend to move away from earlier portrayals of suicide as a philosophical or aesthetic gesture towards a deeper engagement with the causes and consequences of suicide. Placing these highly literary autofictions within a wider context of cultural interest in suicide extending to popular genres, I suggest that their formal complexity allows them to engage critically with stereotypes, and represent the unknowability of the suicidal mind. I also argue that literary representation of mental illness should be seen as part of a broader public discourse that influences social attitudes. | |
dc.format.extent | 493922 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Essays in French Literature and Culture | en |
dc.subject | Suicide | en |
dc.subject | Jauffret | en |
dc.subject | Cusset | en |
dc.subject | Autofiction | en |
dc.subject | Medical Humanities | en |
dc.subject | PQ Romance literatures | en |
dc.subject | HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PQ | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HV | en |
dc.title | Contemporary French fictions of suicide : a medical humanities approach | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. French | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.318170949641341 | en |
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