“Polarities within an Entity”: The Case of Burke and Hare and Ian Rankin’s The Falls (2001)
The cultural profile of the literary haut lieu that is Edinburgh is marked by a strong interest in the violent history of the city, specifically, in its legacy of crime. This legacy is preserved in a variety of material and immaterial archives, including a substantial body of fictional and non-ficti...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_6614 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.6614 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.6614 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/6614 2023-06-01T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n2d https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “Polarities within an Entity”: The Case of Burke and Hare and Ian Rankin’s The Falls (2001) Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Mergenthal, Silvia sentiment d’appartenance au lieu référencement spatio-temporel intertextualité procédure policière littérature écossaise « disjonction écossaise » histoire de la médecine dissection sense of place spatio-temporal referentiality intertextuality police procedural Scottish literature Caledonian antisyzygy medical history dissection The cultural profile of the literary haut lieu that is Edinburgh is marked by a strong interest in the violent history of the city, specifically, in its legacy of crime. This legacy is preserved in a variety of material and immaterial archives, including a substantial body of fictional and non-fictional literature, and inscribed in the Edinburgh cityscape. It is also commodified so as to attract the international tourist trade. Using as its prime example Ian Rankin’s 2001 Rebus novel The Falls, this paper sketches the cultural history of one notorious criminal case, that of William Burke and William Hare. In particular, it discusses the spatio-temporal referentiality of texts about Burke and Hare and situates them in the wider context of the Scottish literary tradition. L’identité culturelle de ce haut lieu littéraire qu’est Édimbourg se caractérise par un intérêt marqué pour l'histoire violente de la ville, et en particulier pour son passé criminel. Cet héritage est conservé dans un ensemble d'archives matérielles et immatérielles, y compris un corpus substantiel de littérature fictive et non fictive, et est inscrit dans le paysage urbain d'Édimbourg. Cet héritage est également exploité pour atteindre le marché du tourisme international. Utilisant comme principal exemple le roman Rebus The Falls de Ian Rankin (2001), cet article esquisse l'histoire culturelle d'une affaire criminelle notoire, celle de William Burke et William Hare. Il analyse, en particulier, le cadre spatio-temporel des textes de Burke et Hare qu’il situe dans le contexte plus large de la tradition littéraire écossaise. |
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sentiment d’appartenance au lieu référencement spatio-temporel intertextualité procédure policière littérature écossaise « disjonction écossaise » histoire de la médecine dissection sense of place spatio-temporal referentiality intertextuality police procedural Scottish literature Caledonian antisyzygy medical history dissection |
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sentiment d’appartenance au lieu référencement spatio-temporel intertextualité procédure policière littérature écossaise « disjonction écossaise » histoire de la médecine dissection sense of place spatio-temporal referentiality intertextuality police procedural Scottish literature Caledonian antisyzygy medical history dissection Mergenthal, Silvia “Polarities within an Entity”: The Case of Burke and Hare and Ian Rankin’s The Falls (2001) |
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The cultural profile of the literary haut lieu that is Edinburgh is marked by a strong interest in the violent history of the city, specifically, in its legacy of crime. This legacy is preserved in a variety of material and immaterial archives, including a substantial body of fictional and non-fictional literature, and inscribed in the Edinburgh cityscape. It is also commodified so as to attract the international tourist trade. Using as its prime example Ian Rankin’s 2001 Rebus novel The Falls, this paper sketches the cultural history of one notorious criminal case, that of William Burke and William Hare. In particular, it discusses the spatio-temporal referentiality of texts about Burke and Hare and situates them in the wider context of the Scottish literary tradition. |
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