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Crime Fiction And The Holocaust

by Eric Sandberg

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 It examines the use of tropes of crime and detection in the representation of historical atrocity in both explicit crime fiction and in literary fiction that relies on some of crime fictionâ€™s signature techniques.
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Investigating Crime In A Time Of War - Historical Crime Fiction And The Representation Of Fascism

by Thomas W. Kniesche

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 Kniesche analyzes historical crime fiction depicting Weimar and Nazi Germany with specific questions in mind: what does the text try to accomplish in regard to transmitting historical knowledge?
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Investigating Crime In A Time Of War - Historical Crime Fiction And The Representation Of Fascism

by Thomas W. Kniesche

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 Kniesche analyzes historical crime fiction depicting Weimar and Nazi Germany with specific questions in mind: what does the text try to accomplish in regard to transmitting historical knowledge?
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Holmes And The Ripper - Versus Narratives

by Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko

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 This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as serial figures and culture-texts emphasising the increasing palimpsestousness of the former and the multidirectional polymorphousness of the latter, and tracing the overlapping Doylean culture-text.
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Ocular Proof And The Spectacled Detective In British Crime Fiction

by Lisa Hopkins

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 From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectivesâ€™ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do.
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Contemporary European Crime Fiction - Representing History And Politics

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 Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries.
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Allusion In Detective Fiction - Shakespeare, The Bible And Dorothy L. Sayers

by Jem Bloomfield

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 This study argues that allusion is a central part of classic British detective fiction. It demonstrates the fraught status of Shakespeare and the Bible during the Golden Age of the British detective novel, and the cultural currents which novelists navigated whilst alluding to them. The first part traces the complex web of allusions to Shakespeare and the Bible which appear in the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, examining the meanings these allusions produce. The second part explores the way in which Sayers’ own collection of detective novels became a canon, on which later novelists exercised those same allusive practices. It studies allusions to Sayers’ novels throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, from Gladys Mitchell and P.D. James to Reginald Hill and Sujata Massey. This study reveals allusion as a shaping force at the origin of the classic British detective novel, and a continuing element in its identity.
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Agatha Christie And The Guilty Pleasure Of Poison

by Sylvia A. Pamboukian

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 Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christieâ€™s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.
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A Narratological Approach To Lists In Detective Fiction

by Sarah J. Link

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 This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Ocular Proof And The Spectacled Detective In British Crime Fiction

by Lisa Hopkins

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 From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectivesâ€™ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do.
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British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965 - Facts And Fictions

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 British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation.
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Holmes And The Ripper - Versus Narratives

by Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko

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 In versus narratives Sherlock Holmes is fighting or otherwise engaging Jack the Ripper. These texts pit the archetypal detective against the archetypal serial killer using established formulas as well as new narrative and generic features, a combination that results in their mass appeal among authors and audiences alike. The list of primary sources includes 120 titles - novels, short stories, plays, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games - which are treated as a dialogic network of transfictional and transmedial texts. This study unpacks the versus corpus in its media dispersal by analysing Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper as serial figures and culture-texts emphasising the increasing palimpsestousness of the former and the multidirectional polymorphousness of the latter, and tracing the overlapping Doylean culture-text. It also addresses the way character constellations are represented, negotiated, and fed back into the versus network, contextualising them within the coalescence of fact and fiction, Gothic and crime fiction frames, cultural memory, neo-Victorianism, and biofiction.
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Deconstructing True Crime Literature

by Charlotte Barnes

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 This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and lesser-known works, the areas of authenticity, accuracy, and author proximity are considered to form a framework on which an individual publication’s subgenre (re)categorisation can be assessed. The book considers the likes of Ann Rule, Truman Capote, and Maggie Nelson, among other notable authors. Their works - those that fit into True Crime and those that defy categorisation within the genre as it exists - are reviewed, and their defining features critiqued. Topics such as narrative methodologies, figurative language, and utilisation of research are considered in support of this. These strands combine to a larger discussion regarding a deconstruction of True Crime, and the ways in which this will improve the social responsibility of the genre, and encourage a more conscientious consumerism of it.
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Food, Consumption, And Masculinity In American Hardboiled Fiction

by Marta Usiekniewicz

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 Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett''s The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler''s The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett''s No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes''s In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson''s The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout''s Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows thatfood and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few.
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A Narratological Approach To Lists In Detective Fiction

by Sarah J. Link

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 This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
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Ocular Proof And The Spectacled Detective In British Crime Fiction

by Lisa Hopkins

145,74€ + 10% CARD

 From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectivesâ€™ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do.
ENGLISH

Agatha Christie And The Guilty Pleasure Of Poison

by Sylvia A. Pamboukian

148,70€ + 10% CARD

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 Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christieâ€™s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.
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Gender Roles And Political Contexts In Cold War Spy Fiction

by Sian Macarthur

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 This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War.
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Truth To Post-Truth In American Detective Fiction

by David Riddle Watson

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 Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poeâ€™s C.
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Contemporary European Crime Fiction - Representing History And Politics

145,74€ + 10% CARD

 Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries.
ENGLISH

Contemporary European Crime Fiction - Representing History And Politics

148,70€ + 10% CARD

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 Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related historical and political inquiries.
ENGLISH

Agatha Christie And The Guilty Pleasure Of Poison

by Sylvia A. Pamboukian

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christieâ€™s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.
ENGLISH

Gender Roles And Political Contexts In Cold War Spy Fiction

by Sian Macarthur

145,09€ + 10% CARD

 This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War.
ENGLISH

British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965 - Facts And Fictions

158,34€ + 10% CARD

 British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation.
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