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Smith, Melanie Kay, and Titanilla Virág Tevely. "Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction: serial killers in the context of dark tourism." Tourism and Heritage Journal 4 (January 9, 2023): 53–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/thj.2022.4.4.

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Serial killers fascinate people and books, films, TV series and other types of entertainment increasingly cater to this interest providing sensationalized media coverage. The theory suggests that the boundaries are blurred considerably between fact and fiction, even for the serial killers themselves. For many people, serial killers are both frightening and attractive enough to motivate them to go on tours and visit sites, museums and other attractions that are associated with them. This paper explores the motivation for consuming true and fictional crime including murders and serial killing wi
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Cora, N. İpek Hüner. "Serial Murder and Honor: Rereading the Story of an Ottoman Murderess." International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (2022): 135–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000046.

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Murderesses are not among the stock characters of Ottoman prose stories, but they give us a rare opportunity to discuss how being a woman and committing a crime is represented in literary fiction. They also give us the opportunity to discuss how these stories might have been perceived by their audiences. With that in mind, I suggest a close reading of a story that I will summarize here. The story raises questions regarding narratives, gender, and honor as represented and perceived in fiction.
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Takla, Nefertiti. "Women and Crime: Exploring the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Constructions of Female Criminality." International Journal of Middle East Studies 54, no. 1 (2022): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743822000022.

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This roundtable on women and crime was inspired by a discussion at a CUNY Dissections Seminar in April 2021, where Gülhan Balsoy presented her work in progress on Ottoman crime fiction in the early 20th century. The focus of her paper was a popular murder mystery series called The National Collection of Murders, which had been published in Istanbul in 1914. The protagonists of this fictional crime series were a mother and daughter known as the Dark Witch and the Bloody Fairy, who led an underground criminal gang living in a secret subterranean world beneath the city of Istanbul. While reading
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Lebedeva, Irena V. "Review of the Book “Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myths and History”." Corpus Mundi 4, no. 1 (2023): 110–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v4i1.80.

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Serial killers have been a popular topic in literature for centuries, appearing in works of fiction, non-fiction, and even poetry. In literature, serial killers often represent the dark side of human nature, and their stories often explore the depths of depravity and the psychological motivations behind their heinous acts. Examples of serial killers can be found throughout history and mythology. With all that the public’s attention is usually focused on the serial murders of the latest decades, with the historical cases still generally remaining in the obscure. The reason for that lack of publ
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Rook, Michael. "Give the Robot the Impossible Job!" After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 3 (2021): 111–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212327.

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Are there some lessons teachers should not teach, even if they are the thing that the student most needs? Can an “education” go too far? In this work of philosophical fiction, the main character is Quinn, an AI teacher set in the distant future. It, along with other AI teachers, are tasked with educating the most difficult students with the promise of “free study.” Quinn accepts a particularly difficult student, in fact, an “impossible student” named Leticia, a young girl who is showing early, but clear, signs of growing up to be a murderer. Quinn accepts this “impossible job” because the newe
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Sooryah, N., and Dr K. R. Soundarya. "Erraticism in the Cannibal – A Study of the Work of Thomas Harris." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 12, no. 2 (2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v12i2.201052.

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Literature is the key to human life that resurrects and gives space for introspection, retrospection and various remembrances which are hued by overjoy, pain and trauma. Nowadays crime literature became one of the most popular genres in this era which centers mostly on murder and violence. It started from Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous fictional character Auguste Dupin, whose first appearance was on The Murders in the Rue Mogue, considered to be the first crime fiction, followed by Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes and the like. The genre crime fiction has contributed innumerable number of works
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Megela, Ivan, and Kateryna Mehela. "Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)." Postmodern Openings 13, no. 4 (2022): 335–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/13.4/520.

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The research deals with the issue of genre hybridization in the novel “Silence – Chronicle of a Killer” written by a contemporary Austrian writer Thomas Raab. An examination of the novel's composition and structure, as a text in motion, has been accomplished in the article. The novel “Silence” is an excellent illustration of how the genre of adventure has been adapted to include elements of science fiction. This novel is a love tale, a rural life saga, a formation narrative, and a psychological thriller all in one. As a fictionalized account of the life of a serial murderer with hypersensitive
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Gregoriou, Christiana. "‘Times like these, I wish there was a real Dexter’: Unpacking serial murder ideologies and metaphors from TV’s Dexter internet forum." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 21, no. 3 (2012): 274–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947012444223.

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The Dexter TV show, much like the literary series it is closely adapted from, features detective hero Dexter Morgan who, though a blood-spatter analyst and killer hunter, is also a serial killer himself. Unlike other killers featured in fiction though, his murderous actions are specifically code-driven; he only pursues dangerous criminals who escape the law. It is because the show encourages readers to empathise with this somewhat unusual detective that the show attracted not only academic attention from television analysts, philosophers, psychologists, linguists and cultural studies specialis
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Klimek, Sonja. "Unzuverlässiges Erzählen als werkübergreifende Kategorie. Personale und impersonale Erzählinstanzen im phantastischen Kriminalroman." Journal of Literary Theory 12, no. 1 (2018): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlt-2018-0003.

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Abstract This paper explores why unreliable narration should be considered as a concept not only applying to single works of fiction, but also to whole series of fiction, and why impersonal (›omniscient‹) narration can also be suspected of unreliability. Some literary genres show a great affinity to unreliable narration. In fantastic literature (in the narrower sense of the term), for instance, the reader’s »hesitation« towards which reality system rules within the fictive world often is due to the narration of an autodiegetic narrator whose credibility is not beyond doubt. Detective stories,
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Santos, Cássia Dos. "Escatologia e mito cosmogônico na obra romanesca de Lúcio Cardoso// Escathology and cosmogonic myth in the novel by Lúcio Cardoso." O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira 32, no. 1 (2023): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2358-9787.32.1.7-31.

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Resumo: Tomando um conjunto considerável de textos de Lúcio Cardoso e reproduzindo trechos de seus artigos, dos Diários (2012), da Crônica da casa assassinada (1959), de manuscritos inéditos, de cartas, assim como fragmentos de entrevistas e depoimentos que concedeu, este artigo pretende apresentar o projeto ficcional do escritor mineiro em torno de uma cidade imaginária. A hipótese defendida é a de que o romance de 1959 integraria um grande ciclo que recebeu o nome de Crônica da cidade assassinada nos manuscritos dos Diários e cujo propósito seria narrar a história de decadência e destruição
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Strong, Jeremy. "Character Adaptations: Recurrence and Return." Adaptation, August 21, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa028.

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Abstract This paper examines recurring character storytelling as the most prodigiously successful tradition in fiction of the last two hundred years. James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales and Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine are proposed as significant precursors that embody two dominant trends within recurring character storytelling: the central protagonist series and the populous storyworld. The foundations of recurring character storytelling are traced in a range of determinants including: increasing literacy and the rise of popular genres; modes of serial publication; and the
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Redford, Jasmine. "A Foundation of Serial Murder and Appreciation of the Male Voice: Historical and Feminist Considerations in The Handmaid's Tale." USURJ: University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal 6, no. 3 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.32396/usurj.v6i3.527.

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Violent crime, and the impulse to temper it, fuel cycles of utopian and dystopian discourse in North American literature. Dystopian fiction operates as a social document that highlight the anxieties of the time in which authoring takes place, and in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, America's violent history/(his)story is legalized and gendered. The principal narrator, Offred, manages her perspective—the only thing she can claim personal ownership over—under the pressure of a strict monotheocracy. This paper examines Atwood's novel with a historical-critical lens and posits that groundwor
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Irwin, Hannah. "Not of This Earth: Jack the Ripper and the Development of Gothic Whitechapel." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.845.

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On the night of 31 August, 1888, Mary Ann ‘Polly’ Nichols was found murdered in Buck’s Row, her throat slashed and her body mutilated. She was followed by Annie Chapman on 8 September in the year of 29 Hanbury Street, Elizabeth Stride in Dutfield’s Yard and Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square on 30 September, and finally Mary Jane Kelly in Miller’s Court, on 9 November. These five women, all prostitutes, were victims of an unknown assailant commonly referred to by the epithet ‘Jack the Ripper’, forming an official canon which excludes at least thirteen other cases around the same time. As the Ri
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Phillips, Jennifer Anne. "Closure through Mock-Disclosure in Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park." M/C Journal 12, no. 5 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.190.

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In a 1999 interview with the online magazine The AV Club, a subsidiary of satirical news website, The Onion, Bret Easton Ellis claimed: “I’ve never written a single scene that I can say took place, I’ve never written a line of dialogue that I’ve heard someone say or that I have said” (qtd. in Klein). Ten years later, in the same magazine, Ellis was reminded of this quote and asked why most of his novels have been perceived as veiled autobiographies. Ellis responded:Well, they are autobiographical in the sense that they reflect who I was at a particular moment in my life. There was talk of a me
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Krause, Till. "From Niche Narrative to Audio Blockbusters." M/C Journal 27, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3031.

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Introduction For the past ten years, a transformative trend has emerged in the consumption of journalistic content, diverging significantly from its traditional engagement pathways. This evolution is characterised by the allure of serial journalistic podcasts such as Serial, which have seamlessly integrated narrative techniques typically reserved for fiction into journalistic storytelling (Kulkarni et al.). These podcasts have leveraged episodic structures, suspenseful build-ups, and dramatic climaxes to foster a level of engagement akin to fiction's grip on audiences. This shift towards addic
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Brien, Donna Lee. "The Real Filth in American Psycho." M/C Journal 9, no. 5 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2657.

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 1991 An afternoon in late 1991 found me on a Sydney bus reading Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991). A disembarking passenger paused at my side and, as I glanced up, hissed, ‘I don’t know how you can read that filth’. As she continued to make her way to the front of the vehicle, I was as stunned as if she had struck me physically. There was real vehemence in both her words and how they were delivered, and I can still see her eyes squeezing into slits as she hesitated while curling her mouth around that final angry word: ‘filth’. Now, almost fifteen years later, the
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Masson, Sophie Veronique. "Fairy Tale Transformation: The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1116.

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The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a pi
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Lambert, Anthony, and Catherine Simpson. "Jindabyne’s Haunted Alpine Country: Producing (an) Australian Badland." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.81.

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“People live here, they die here so they must leave traces.” (Read 140) “Whatever colonialism was and is, it has made this place unsettling and unsettled.” (Gibson, Badland 2) Introduction What does it mean for [a] country to be haunted? In much theoretical work in film and Cultural Studies since the 1990s, the Australian continent, more often than not, bears traces of long suppressed traumas which inevitably resurface to haunt the present (Gelder and Jacobs; Gibson; Read; Collins and Davis). Felicity Collins and Therese Davis illuminate the ways Australian cinema acts as a public sphere, or “
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Taveira, Rodney. "Don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Remains of Fresh Kills." M/C Journal 13, no. 4 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.281.

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It’s a portrait of grief, to be sure, but it puts grief in the air, as a cultural atmospheric, without giving us anything to mourn.—— Tom Junod, “The Man Who Invented 9/11”The nearly decade-long attempt by families of 9/11 victims to reclaim the remains of their relatives involves rhetorics of bodilessness, waste, and virtuality that offer startling illustrations of what might be termed “the poetics of grief.” After combining as the WTC Families for Proper Burial Inc. in 2002, the families sued the city of New York in 2005. They lost and the case has been under appeal since 2008. WTC Families
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Blackwood, Gemma. "<em>The Serpent</em> (2021)." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2835.

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The Netflix/BBC eight-part limited true crime series The Serpent (2021) provides a commentary on the impact of the tourist industry in South-East Asia in the 1970s. The series portrays the story of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim)—a psychopathic international con artist of Vietnamese-Indian descent—who regularly targeted Western travellers, especially the long-term wanderers of the legendary “Hippie Trail” (or the “Overland”), running between eastern Europe and Asia. The series, which was filmed on location in Thailand—in Bangkok and the Thai town of Hua Hin—is set
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Campanioni, Chris. "How Bizarre: The Glitch of the Nineties as a Fantasy of New Authorship." M/C Journal 21, no. 5 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1463.

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As the ball dropped on 1999, is it any wonder that No Doubt played, “It’s the End of the World as We Know It” by R.E.M. live on MTV? Any discussion of the Nineties—and its pinnacle moment, Y2K—requires a discussion of both the cover and the glitch, two performative and technological enactments that fomented the collapse between author-reader and user-machine that has, twenty years later, become normalised in today’s Post Internet culture. By staging failure and inviting the audience to participate, the glitch and the cover call into question the original and the origin story. This breakdown of
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Mullen, Mark. "It Was Not Death for I Stood Up…and Fragged the Dumb-Ass MoFo Who'd Wasted Me." M/C Journal 6, no. 1 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2134.

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I remember the first time I saw a dead body. I spawned just before dawn; around me engines were clattering into life, the dim silhouettes of tanks beginning to move out in a steady grinding rumble. I could dimly make out a few other people, the anonymity of their shadowy outlines belied by the names hanging over their heads in a comforting blue. Suddenly, a stream of tracers arced across the sky; explosions sounded nearby, then closer still; a tank ahead of me stopped, turned sluggishly, and fired off a couple of rounds, rocking slightly against the recoil. The radio was filled with talk of Ge
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Bourdaa, Mélanie. "From One Medium to the Next: How Comic Books Create Richer Storylines." M/C Journal 21, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1355.

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Transmedia storytelling, as defined by Henry Jenkins in 2006 in his book Convergence Culture, highlights a production strategy that aims to augment the narration of a cultural work by scattering it across several media platforms—digital or non-digital. The term is certainly quite recent, but the practices are not new and allow us to understand the evolution of the cultural industries and the creation of a new media ecosystem. As Matthew Freeman states, transmedia storytelling always relies on industrial changes, the narration adapting itself to new media synergies and novelties to create engag
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