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El Refaie, Elisabeth. "Looking on the Dark and Bright Side: Creative Metaphors of Depression in Two Graphic Memoirs." Auto/Biography Studies 29. (2014): 149–74. Added by: joachim (4/20/15, 9:50 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2014.921989 BibTeX citation key: ElRefaie2014 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Depresso", "Psychiatric Tales", Autobiography, Brick, Clark. John Stuart, Cunningham. Darryl, Illness, Metaphor, United Kingdom Creators: El Refaie Collection: Auto/Biography Studies |
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When people speak or write about their experience of depression, a small number of metaphors often dominate their accounts. This article uses two graphic memoirs to show how comics artists may creatively transform such entrenched metaphors by drawing on the sociocultural conventions and formal properties of the medium.
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