Life Sentence: Dialectics, Narrative Identity, and the Language of Self-Harm in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects

Presenter Information

Katya Fisher

Author ORCID

0009-0009-4448-6421

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.