Fictional Death and Scientific Truth: The Truth-value of Science in Contemporary Forensic Crime Fiction

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)88-98
JournalClues: A Journal of Detection
Volume30
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2012

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Languages and Literature

Free keywords

  • science
  • scientist
  • scientist detective
  • fictional science
  • truth
  • fictional truth
  • crime fiction
  • forensic crime fiction
  • forensic genre
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Patricia Cornwell

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