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Evidence, Criminal, in literature. --- Greek literature --- Witnesses in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Memory. --- Poetry --- Poetry. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Psychic trauma. --- Self-disclosure in literature. --- Self-disclosure. --- Witnesses in literature. --- Witnesses. --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999.

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Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony, this collection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing like literature and poetry, and its place in society. It visits testimony in relation to a range of critical developments, including the rise of Truth Commissions and the explosion and radical extension of human rights discourse; renewed cultural interest in perpetrators of violence alongside the phenomenal commercial success of victim testimony (in the form of misery memoirs); and the emergence of disciplinary interest in genocide, terror, and other violent atrocities. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. At the volume's core is an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers, and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and novelists. The collection draws together an international range of case-studies, including discussion of the former Yugoslavia, Gaza, and Rwanda, and encompasses a cross-disciplinary set of texts, novels, plays, testimonial writing, and hybrid testimonies. The volume situates itself at the cutting-edge of debate and as such brings together the leading thinkers in the field, requiring that each address the future, anticipating and setting the future terms of debate on the importance of testimony.

Psychic trauma in literature. --- Testimony (Theory of knowledge) --- Witnesses in literature. --- Recollection (Psychology) --- Memory --- Psychic trauma and mass media. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society. --- Social aspects. --- Witnesses. --- Truth commissions. --- Human rights.

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This original and wide-ranging study shows how changing attitudes to evidence, trial and revelation in law and theology had a profound impact on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melissa Schramm, who is both a lawyer and a literary critic, argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy that both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their story-telling counterparts of the criminal Bar, and traces the ongoing debate over rules of evidence, eye-witness testimony and codes of ethical conduct that helped shape Victorian realism as a narrative form.

English literature --- Law and literature. --- Evidence, Criminal, in literature. --- Witnesses in literature. --- Theology in literature. --- Trials in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature and law --- Literature --- History and criticism.

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There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge. Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

English literature --- Evidence (Law) --- Experience in literature --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Literature --- Scottish literature --- Subjectivity in literature --- Witnesses in literature --- Extrinsic evidence --- Parol evidence --- Trial evidence --- Actions and defenses --- Judicial process --- Trial practice --- Estoppel --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Scottish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Highlands of Scotland (Scotland) --- Scottish Highlands (Scotland) --- In literature. --- Experience in literature. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Witnesses in literature. --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.