‘Made-up and Made-over’: Faking the Serial Killer and the Serial Killer Fake

Knox, Sara L.

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“…movement, space, and chaos -the life-and-death dialectic of statics (Gupta, 2010). It is here that stillness is seen as a sign of the Absolute, which is seen as a prototype of all things in the world (Knox, 2013). In this way, the passage from the profane to the holy is defined.…”

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Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)

Megela

Mehela

2022

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The research deals with the issue of genre hybridization in the novel “Silence – Chronicle of a Killer” written by a contemporary Austrian writer Thomas Raab. An examination of the novel's composition and structure, as a text in motion, has been accomplished in the article. The novel “Silence” is an excellent illustration of how the genre of adventure has been adapted to include elements of science fiction. This novel is a love tale, a rural life saga, a formation narrative, and a psychological thriller all in one. As a fictionalized account of the life of a serial murderer with hypersensitive hearing who became a legend for his mental torment and suffering, it serves both as a biography and a thriller. Novelist Raab uses elements from classic horror novels like Frankenstein, German romantics, in particular, G. Kleist, the tale of Casper Hauser, and detective novels like Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Promise" to tell the story of Casper Hauser's disappearance in his book. A new aesthetic experience may be formed at various degrees of identification ranging from naive perception to higher levels of literary reception. Concentration is required for poetic and philosophical substance. Michel Focalut's nomadism, marginality, and authoritarian power rhetoric have been discussed in this article. The novel's ultimate content has been disclosed as the aphesis torment, emotional sublimation, as the birth of an artwork and, at the same time, death of the author, who exposes discourses, accountable for creating texts that are allocated to him.

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Section: Philosophical Antinomies Of the Protagonistmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)

Megela

Mehela

2022

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‘Made-up and Made-over’: Faking the Serial Killer and the Serial Killer Fake

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Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)

Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer (Based on the Novel “Silence” by Thomas Raab)

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