The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, 

Название: Centrality of crime fiction in american literary culture
ISBN: 1138680478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138680470
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. The volume emphasizes American crime fiction`s inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.

Автор: Bran Nicol, Eugene McNulty, Patricia Pulham
Название: Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
ISBN: 1441150161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441150165
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American `hard-boiled` crime novel and the gangster movie, it breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.

Автор: Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Название: Scandinavian Crime Fiction
ISBN: 1472522753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472522757
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: With its bleak urban environments, psychologically compelling heroes and socially engaged plots, Scandinavian crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key themes, international impact and socio-political contexts, Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such key texts as Sj wall and Wahl 's Novel of a Crime, Gunnar Staalesen's Varg Veum series, Peter H eg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series such as The Killing. With its focus on the function of crime fiction in both reflecting and shaping the late-modern Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for readers, viewers and fans of contemporary crime writing.