Švrljuga, Željka

Željka Švrljuga received her Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway where she is Associate Professor of American Literature.

Hysteria and Melancholy as Literary Style in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes

2011 0-7734-1517-3
Using the ideas of Kristeva and Lacan, this study examines works by four female authors to demonstrate that hysteria and elancholy/melancholia can be viewed as discourse and style when analyzing literary texts. This book contains three color photographs.

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