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Suicide in Contemporary Culture. Suicide Notes as a Genre and Cultural Fact

Author(s): Halszka Witkowska
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Psychology, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: suicide; suicide note; Werther-effect; suicide attempt; self-destruction
Summary/Abstract: A comparative study which juxtaposes original suicide notes with their cultural representations and allows for seeing the differences between such texts. An interdisciplinary approach, which uses cultural, language and suicidal interpretations thus enabling a scientific dialogue with the narrative created by culture, media and society.

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