The Cult of Excess at the Dawn of Spain’s Criminal Imaginary

How can a murder be excessively represented to set it apart from other notable crimes? This article explores, through a number of representative cases, the construction of excess as criminal category, one in itself overwhelming, borrowing resources from preexisting genres. Mass and serial murder, th...

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Published in:Edad de Oro (Madrid, Spain) Spain), 2018-11, Vol.37
Main Author: Elena Del Río Parra
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
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Summary:How can a murder be excessively represented to set it apart from other notable crimes? This article explores, through a number of representative cases, the construction of excess as criminal category, one in itself overwhelming, borrowing resources from preexisting genres. Mass and serial murder, the use of numbers, chain structures, and folkloric archetypes and formulae will be examined, within a very particular cultural marketplace filled with not only quantitative but qualitative traits. Keywords: mass and serial murder, criminal event, excess, quantity and quality, killing systems, formulae and motifs, narrative patterns.
ISSN:0212-0429
2605-3314
DOI:10.15366/edadoro2018.37.005