Andrea Borghese CACS304 Literature review research by Andrea Borghese

The technique

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 01:44:05 UTC

This is my third and final body paragraph and it focuses on the narrative technique of the unreliable narrator. I examine different types of unreliability to show how distorted perception can represent trauma and memory loss in fantasy.

The form

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:02:51 UTC

This is my broader paragraph and serves as an introduction. I talk about the general relationship between Fantasy and Psychology.

Key sources

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:03:00 UTC

-Heidarizadeh, N 2015, ‘The Significant Role of Trauma in Literature and Psychoanalysis’, Procedia, social and behavioral sciences, vol. 192, pp. 788–795.

-Atwood, M 1988, Cat’s Eye, McClelland and Stewart, Toronto.

-Shields, A 2018, ‘In-between worlds: exploring trauma through fantasy’

-Blake, Brandy Ball. ““Daemonic” Forces Trauma and Intertextuality in Fantasy Literature.” UGA Open Scholar, University of Georgia,

-Hartman, G 2003, ‘Trauma Within the Limits of Literature’, European journal of English studies, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 257–274.

Broke down the question with fantasy/ dissociative amnesia/ unreliable narrators

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:18:33 UTC

In my previous assemssment, I was criticised for being too broad with my reasearch topic and questions, that is way I narrowed it down from a general research into trauma with literary techniques to just one technique (unreliable narrators) and one trauma (dissociative amnesia)

The trauma

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:19:20 UTC

This is my second paragraph and focuses specifically on dissociative amnesia. I explain its clinical background and its fictional portrayal through various media.

Topic or Technique research?

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:23:39 UTC

I intended my lit. review to be focused on a method/technique research but it slowly turned into a topic research

Ai tools

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:34:55 UTC

The only 2 ai tools I utilised for this lit review are: Google Translate and Google Ai overview while browsing for sources.

Total sources used in this review: 12

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:36:49 UTC

I had more but had to limit myself due to the word counter

Search Strategies

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:45:24 UTC

I researched my sources through the UOW library, Google scholar and sometimes typing key words on google chrome

Key sources

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:54:22 UTC

-Leong, S, Waits, W & Diebold, C 2006, ‘Dissociative Amnesia and DSM-IV-TR Cluster C Personality Traits’, Psychiatry (Edgmont (Pa. : Township)), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 51–55.

-Freud, S 1920, Beyond the pleasure principle, International Psycho-Analytical Press, Vienna.

-POPE, HG, POLIAKOFF, MB, PARKER, MP, BOYNES, M & HUDSON, JI 2007, ‘Is dissociative amnesia a culture-bound syndrome? Findings from a survey of historical literature’, Psychological medicine, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 225–233.

-Dieguez, S. and Annoni, A. (2013) 'Stranger than Fiction: Literary and Clinical Amnesia', in Amnesia and The Self. Basel: Karger Publishers, pp. 201-233.

Key sources

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 05:56:44 UTC

-Riggan, William. Pícaros, Madmen, Naïfs, and Clowns : The Unreliable First-Person Narrator. Norman, University Of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

-Siewert, SP 2019, ‘Mental Illness and Its Relationship to the Unreliable Narrator in a Work of Creative Fiction’,

-Whitt, RJ 2023, ‘Trauma, Mind Style, and Unreliable Narration in Toni Morrison’s Home’, Style (University Park, PA), vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 187–204.

-Gautam, Khushboo 2025 . “Representing Traumatic Memory: Unreliable Narrator and Magic Realism in Brunonia Barry’s Novel “the Lace Reader.”” International Journal of English and Studies(IJOES), vol. 7, no. 2, 2025

my thoughts overall

ajbborghese — 2025-10-03 06:09:19 UTC

This is my conclusion and it brings together the three strands of my research. I highlight the gap in scholarship and explain how my project will connect dissociative amnesia with the madman unreliable narrator in fantasy.