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  2. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The main character is Zeno Cosini, and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps at the insistence of his psychiatrist. Zeno's Conscience is most notably influential for being one of the first modernist novels with a non-linear structure and told by an unreliable narrator. Christina Alberta's Father, 1925 novel by H.G. Wells ...

  3. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Max and Moritz - Principal characters of the book of the same name written by Wilhelm Busch in 1865. Famous for their tricks, Max and Moritz quickly became famous characters in Germany. The Mask - Wears a mask imbued with Loki's powers and lack of inhibition. Mister Mxyzptlk - An imp from the fifth dimension featured in the Superman comics.

  4. List of fictional professors - Wikipedia

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    English literature: Some Kind of Beautiful (2014) Pierce Brosnan: Dr. Richard Haig: English literature Spider-Man 2: Dylan Baker: Dr. Curtis Connors: physics Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Kathryn Hahn: Dr. Olivia Octavius: physics Still Alice (2014) Julianne Moore: Professor Alice Howland: linguistics Tarzan (1999) Nigel Hawthorne ...

  5. Fictional portrayals of psychopaths - Wikipedia

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    Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates (), a notable psychopathic character from fiction. Fictional portrayals of psychopaths, or sociopaths, are some of the most notorious in film and literature but may only vaguely or partly relate to the concept of psychopathy, which is itself used with varying definitions by mental health professionals, criminologists and others.

  6. Feigned madness - Wikipedia

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    Other characters also feign for love. [5] Odysseus feigned madness by yoking a horse and an ox to his plow and sowing salt [6] or plowing the beach. Palamedes believed that he was faking and tested it by placing his son, Telemachus right in front of the plow. When Odysseus stopped immediately, his sanity was proven.

  7. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - Wikipedia

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    What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is the 1997 debut novel by Pearl Cleage.It was published by Avon on December 1, 1997 and was selected for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club in 1998 and was a New York Times Best Seller for nine straight weeks.

  8. Category:Fictional con artists - Wikipedia

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    S. The Saint (Simon Templar) Seishiro Sakurazuka; Carmen Sandiego (character) Shapoklyak; Becky Sharp; Los simuladores; Bobby Singer; Han Solo; Keyser Söze; Eliot Spencer

  9. Transgressive fiction - Wikipedia

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    Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature which focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. [ 1 ]