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“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…
Questo non è un flashback: frontiere della metalessi
2018
Se Gérard Genette ha contribuito in modo determinante all’annessione della metalessi dagli studi di retorica agli studi di narratologia, è stato ancora più responsabile della marcata deriva cinematografica di quegli stessi studi. Tra tanti suggerimenti ampiamente accolti dagli studiosi, forse alcune provocazioni sono però rimaste nell’ombra: il modo in cui parola e immagine interagiscono nella visualizzazione di racconti e ricordi sono stati riletti come altrettanti giochi metalettici. A poco a poco la metalessi ha finito per espandere i suoi confini, colonizzando i più insospettabili territori della rappresentazione filmica. Non sarà forse il caso di accettarne la sfida per disegnare una p…
Perpetrator Trauma in Television Crime Series We Hunt Together
2022
Crime fiction scholarship increasingly focuses on trauma in contemporary crime narratives but has largely neglected to investigate perpetrator trauma. This article contributes to filling this gap by exploring perpetrator trauma in We Hunt Together (2020), a British television crime series written by Gaby Hull, that portrays the consequences of perpetrator trauma on a former child soldier from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Babeni (Baba) Lenga, waiting for permanent residency in the UK. Viewers learn about his violent past through flashbacks and his involvement with Frederica ‘Freddy’ Lane which precipitates Baba’s present return to violence. Informed by crime fiction studies, l…