Blar i forfatter "Larsen, Marianne Sagen"
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Mental illness in literature. Seeing and recognizing mental illness in Conrad’s ‘The Idiots’, Poe’s ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ and Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
Larsen, Marianne Sagen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-05-29)Abstract The central theme in ‘The Idiots’ by Joseph Conrad, ‘The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether’ by Edgar Allen Poe and Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald is mental illness. These texts demonstrate mental illness through genetically inherited insanity, doctor patient relationship and self-perception of mental illness in that they all explore the thin line between sanity and lunacy. ...