Textual Worlds of Trauma: A Cognitive-Poetic Examination of Mental Disintegration in The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

2025/10/19 by Salman Owaid Almnhlawey, Manahil, Esmaeili, Parivash, Kadim Igaab Igaab, Zainab +1
#Cognitive poetics #Ken Kesey #Mental illness #Narrative hallucination #Point of view #Sub-worlds #Sylvia Plath #Text World Theory #World-switching

paper · doi:10.71755/ttlt-2025-1217936

Abstract

Journal of Language and Translation, 15(3), 43

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