Essay: ‘Inner Demons’: A Lexical Analysis of the Representation of Suicide in the Media – Three Articles on the Death of Nicholas Hughes
by thimbleshelf
As today is Sylvia Plath’s birthday, and tomorrow is Ted Hughes’s death day, and I haven’t shared an essay in a while, and I’m about to go to a lecture about what happens to bodies when they die, here is a piece of research about different newspapers’ representations of Plath and Hughes’s son’s suicide for a little cheery Monday reading.
Newspaper analysis is one of my favourite things to do, although it does often make me want to rip off my own head and set fire to it.
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