Abstract

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.

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