Life Sentence: Dialectics, Narrative Identity, and the Language of Self-Harm in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects
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Abstract
This HTC English thesis reads the main character of Gillian Flynn's novel Sharp Objects through a lens of narrative psychology and dialectical theory to argue for a more nuanced perception of self-harm and trauma in literature.
Status
Undergraduate
Department
English
College
Honors Tutorial College
Campus
Athens
Faculty Mentor
Jones, Paul
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Life Sentence: Dialectics, Narrative Identity, and the Language of Self-Harm in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects
This HTC English thesis reads the main character of Gillian Flynn's novel Sharp Objects through a lens of narrative psychology and dialectical theory to argue for a more nuanced perception of self-harm and trauma in literature.