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The Crow: How trauma and grief can be processed through the medium of storytelling / RACHAEL SANDIFER-SMITH

Swansea University Author: RACHAEL SANDIFER-SMITH

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DOI (Published version): 10.23889/SUthesis.69852

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In The Crow: How trauma and grief can be processed through the medium of storytelling, I interrogate how suicide and suicide loss is presented in YA and Middle-Grade literature, with a focus on how grief and trauma can be processed and understood through a medium of fairy tales and storytelling. The...

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Published: Swansea, Wales, UK 2025
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: Bilton, Alan ; Kohlke, Mel
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