Tattoos are complex artefacts that may include figurative and/or decorative elements (often endowed with symbolic value), also in association with writing. Harmonising with the design of the body, they fulfil an aesthetic function, but they also testify to an individual’s history, personality, allegiances. The narrative potential of tattoos and related body modifications is associated with the ‘life stories’ of those who bear them. The preface to "Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives" sets the ground for the analyses that follows in the rest of the volume.
Foreword / Maurizio Ascari. - STAMPA. - (2019), pp. xvi-xxiii.
Foreword
Maurizio Ascari
2019
Abstract
Tattoos are complex artefacts that may include figurative and/or decorative elements (often endowed with symbolic value), also in association with writing. Harmonising with the design of the body, they fulfil an aesthetic function, but they also testify to an individual’s history, personality, allegiances. The narrative potential of tattoos and related body modifications is associated with the ‘life stories’ of those who bear them. The preface to "Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives" sets the ground for the analyses that follows in the rest of the volume.File in questo prodotto:
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