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Beschreibung
Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However, in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred, this book shows how fiction shapes and structures, challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence, for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon, the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines, it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore, it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.
Ever since the 1990s, school shootings have shocked the public in their brutality, their suddenness, and their inexplicability. While film and literature have played a role in the heated debates about so-called copycat crimes, the growing body of fictionalizations of school shootings has been neglected thus far. However, in a discourse in which the boundaries between fiction and reality are increasingly blurred, this book shows how fiction shapes and structures, challenges and disrupts cultural processes of meaning-making. Hence, for a better understanding of the school shooting phenomenon, the relevance of fiction on all levels of discourse construction requires thorough analysis. This book therefore develops a new approach to the role of fiction for contemporary forms of excessive violence. By combining narrative theory with insights from sociology and other disciplines, it provides the means for apprehending and describing the relevance of fiction for contemporary discourses. Furthermore, it provides exemplary analyses of more specific functions of literary and filmic fictionalizations of school shootings between 2000 and 2016.
Über den Autor
Silke Braselmann
, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: ISSN
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9783110766059
ISBN-10: 3110766051
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Braselmann, Silke
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Hersteller: De Gruyter
ISSN
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: De Gruyter [9], Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, orders@degruyter.com
Maße: 230 x 155 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Silke Braselmann
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2021
Gewicht: 0,612 kg
Artikel-ID: 120395986

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