Cringe and sympathy: the comedy of mental illness in 'Flowers'
- This article on brings together findings from humor studies, especially work on cringe comedy, and disability studies. It analyzes how Flowers uses elements of cringe to question societal norms of the “proper person” in connection to mental illness, but also how Flowers broadens the genre of cringe so that, at times, it becomes a cringe tragedy rather than a cringe comedy, thus taking seriously the pain of mental illness. As a third point, this analysis focuses on the way in which Flowers self-reflexively employs elements of narrativity to draw attention to the cultural constructedness and storyfication of mental illness throughout history.
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| Author: | Linda M. HessGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-910589 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/91058 |
| ISSN: | 2076-0787OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Humanities |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/11/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2021/12/09 |
| Tag: | mental illness; cringe; dark comedy |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| First Page: | 121 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/h10040121 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Anglistik / Amerikanistik / Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 81 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch / 810 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand) |
