American literature; Mental illness; Mental distress; Madness; Health Humanities; Depression; Novel; Fiction; Short story; Postmodernism; Gender; Feminism; Contemporary; Sylvia Plath; Ottessa Moshfegh
Research Center/Unit :
Leuven Centre for Health Humanities Leuven English Literature Research Group Leuven Cultural Studies Research Group Leuven Literary and Cultural Studies Research Unit
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Lombard, David ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
Language :
English
Title :
Poetics and Politics of Mental Illness and Distress in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Bettering Myself’
Publication date :
10 November 2025
Event name :
Cours « American Literature 1914–present » (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Event organizer :
Berit Brink (VU Amsterdam)
Event place :
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Event date :
Du 10 novembre 2025 au 10 novembre 2025
Development Goals :
3. Good health and well-being 5. Gender equality 10. Reduced inequalities
Name of the research project :
The Twenty-First-Century Schizophrenia (Graphic) Memoir: A Rhetorical-Narratological and Multi-Actor Materialist Approach
