(Un)triggering Anorexia: A Cognitive Literary Analysis of Lia "the Liar" in Wintergirls (2009).

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE LITERATURE AND MEDICINE Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/lm.2022.0010
Rocío Riestra-Camacho
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The importance of authorial intention has been debated extensively in literary studies. In cognitive literary studies, however, the effects books provoke in readers are of greater relevance. With an unreliable intradiegetic narrator, ambivalent about her denial of hunger, Wintergirls (2009), a US YA anorexia novel, embodies the spiraling network of lies that feeds this condition. This essay takes Wintergirls as a starting point to discuss the therapeutic or harmful effects of literature, over and above the intentions of the writer. Adopting a cognitive literary perspective, this essay proposes the concept of an "unreliable reader," and uses that concept to demonstrate that the novel has a self-triggering potential to reinforce anorexia. This is an unusual approach, inasmuch as it runs counter to previous positive literary criticism of Wintergirls, but it is a perspective in urgent need of reconsideration for the sake of disordered readers.

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引发厌食症:《冬姑娘》中“说谎者”莉亚的认知文学分析(2009)。
在文学研究中,作者意图的重要性一直备受争议。然而,在认知文学研究中,书籍对读者产生的影响具有更大的相关性。美国青少年厌食症小说《冬姑娘》(Wintergirls, 2009)采用了一个不可靠的反传统叙述者,对她对饥饿的否认态度矛盾,体现了滋养这种状况的谎言螺旋式网络。本文以《冬姑娘》为出发点,讨论文学的治疗或有害作用,超越了作者的意图。本文采用认知文学的观点,提出了“不可靠读者”的概念,并利用这一概念来证明小说具有自我触发的强化厌食症的潜力。这是一种不同寻常的方法,因为它与之前对《冬姑娘》的积极文学批评背道而驰,但为了混乱的读者,这是一种迫切需要重新考虑的视角。
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