Evaluating Representations of Mental Health in Young Adult Fiction: The Case of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower
This article examines representations of mental health in young adult (YA) litearature, taking up Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) as its case study. Paying attention to the affordances of the genre of “teen sick-lit,” I connect such YA literature to the broader field of narr...
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Language: | deu |
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Università degli Studi di Milano
2016-12-01
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Series: | Enthymema |
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Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/article/view/7400 |