Time and memory in the Twilight Zone: cognitive literary perspectives on Joan Didion's Blue Nights

Merril Howie

doi:10.1080/08989575.2023.2254163

Time and memory in the Twilight Zone: cognitive literary perspectives on Joan Didion's Blue Nights

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This interdisciplinary discussion of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights explores how techniques such as novel metaphor, multisensory imagery, and cinematic-style montages encourage a panoramic mode of readerly recollection, together with a heightened awareness of the slippery interplay between autobiographical memory and time, and the significance of cognitive scaffolding in human recall.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	155-184
Number of pages	30
Journal	a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
Volume	39
Issue number	1
Early online date	16 Oct 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2254163
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Didion
cognition
memory
time

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Time and memory in the Twilight Zone: cognitive literary perspectives on Joan Didion's Blue Nights

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