Fictional Death and Scientific Truth: The Truth-value of Science in Contemporary Forensic Crime Fiction
Författare
Summary, in English
The author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor. Both are found to convey strong bonds between science and truth, and readers/viewers are likely to assume that this is the case also in the external world.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
88-98
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Clues: A Journal of Detection
Volym
30
Issue
1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Ämne
- Languages and Literature
Nyckelord
- science
- scientist
- scientist detective
- fictional science
- truth
- fictional truth
- crime fiction
- forensic crime fiction
- forensic genre
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Patricia Cornwell
Status
Published
Projekt
- Science in the Crime Genre
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1940-3046