carnography

Part of it is that the moral raison d'etre of the Grand Guignol and Dreadful Penny's -- to implicate the audience in the performance and indict us as batteners upon bloody violence -- is so often, and so easily, used as a transparent excuse to present naked carnography.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

This is neither A-1 SFnal war writing nor A-1 carnography, in other words, although it's less slick and hence much better than John Ringo or S.M. Stirling or their ilk.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

Since no particular narrative was associated with the work, it was perceived by contemporaries as gratuitous carnography.

13 « December « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

Since no particular narrative was associated with the work, it was perceived by contemporaries as gratuitous carnography.

Carnography #4 « Jahsonic 2007

The term was “carnography.”  The meat novel.  The intent was to contain “the pornographic nature of the detailed description of extreme violence” into a single term.

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