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Seago, K., Hopkinson, A.
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Philip McLaren and the Indigenous-Australian Crime Novel [PDF]
This paper locates the postcolonial crime novel as a space for disenfranchised groups to write back to the marginalisation inherent in the process of colonisation, and explores the example of Australia.
Cornelis Martin Renes
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Recensione di: Barbara Pezzotti, The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction. A Bloody Journey, Lanham (Maryland), Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012, 213 p., ISBN: 9781611475531, € 44,77 (hardback).
Inge Lanslots
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A Sea of Islands, a Sea of Crime: Island Crime Fiction in the Aegean Sea
Crime fiction frequently takes the real and imaginary geography of islands as its setting and subject. Through a reading of selected novels by Anne Zouroudi, Jeffrey Siger, and Paul Johnston, this article looks at ways in which ideas about ‘islandness ...
Ralph Crane
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In the nineteenth century and in the beginning of the twentieth century few Polish authors exploited the convention of crime fiction. The situation improved in the Interwar period, but World War II interrupted the evolution of this literary genre in ...
Anna Gemra
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The Semiotic Background of the Ineffective Investigation in the Weird Detective Story [PDF]
The classical detective story is based on a teleological certainty offered by the narrative. In these stories, the detective successfully solves the crime, and the lawful order is restored in an assuring manner, so the closure of the narrative ...
Norbert Gyuris
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The “Unclaimed Experience”: Trauma and Crime Fiction
This paper examines the intersections between trauma and literature and crime fiction, more specifically. By looking at the representations of trauma in crime fiction, it is argued here that trauma in crime novels involves a multilayered and complex ...
Maysaa Husam Jaber
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The researcher as unreliable narrator: writing sociological crime fiction as a research method
Whilst works of art, including fiction, are well established as legitimate objects of sociological analysis, and the narratives crafted by the subjects of social research are widely understood to be meaningful, the use of creative writing as a ...
Phil Crockett Thomas
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‘"[B]etween power and the people": Journalist-investigators in Nordic crime fiction' [PDF]
Recent Nordic crime fiction contains numerous amateur detectives who are professional journalists. Their presence is partly explained by the shared roots and formal affinities of crime reportage and crime fiction, and by the journalistic backgrounds of ...
Vuohelainen, M.
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