Cringe and Sympathy
The Comedy of Mental Illness in Flowers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Heß (University of Augsburg, corresponding author), Linda M Hess |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 121 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h10040121 |
| OpenAlex | W3215121426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Art · Comedy · Literature · Mental health · Mental illness · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Sympathy · Film in Education and Therapy · Humor Studies and Applications · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |