Forensic Memory : Literature after Testimony
This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language, narration, and use of visual media? Thi...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,
2017
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
SpringerLink Bücher Springer eBook Collection Literature, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Schlagworte: | Cultural and Media Studies Culture Ethnology Historiography |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (VII, 242 p, online resource) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book describes and analyses a particular literary mode that challenges the aesthetics of testimony by approaching the past through detection, analysis, and ‘archaeological’ digging. How does forensic literature narrate the past in terms of plot, language, narration, and use of visual media? This volume examines how forensic literature provides an important corrective to the forensic paradigm and a means of exploring the relationship between visual and material evidence and various forms of testimony. This literary engagement with the past is investigated in order to challenge a forensic paradigm that aims to eliminate the problems related to human testimony through scientific objectivity, resulting in a fresh and original text in which Bøndergaard argues literature’s potential to explore the mechanisms of representation, interpretation, and narration 1. Introduction. - 2. After Testimony -- 3. Forensic Traces -- 4. Forensic Narration -- 5. Conclusion. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (VII, 242 p, online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9783319517667 331951766X 9783319517650 3319517651 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-51766-7 |