The work of an instant : the photographic moment in narrative memory.

• Main Author: Tang, Chee Seng.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Chinese; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American; DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition; DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Photography; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Singapore
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49780
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay, I propose a new term, ‘memogram’, which is to be used as a narrative marker that both refers to, and represents a moment of significance that is seared into a fictional character’s memory. As Alan Palmer, in his book, Fictional Minds, points out,“(narrative) is in essence the presentation of fictional mental functioning” (177). Hence, by noting how memograms operate within a fictional narrative, we would be able to have an insight into the cognitive mental functionings of a fictional character, and in turn, examine how the memogram may shape the identity of the same character who remembers a particular moment.