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The Comfort of Crime: The Appeal of Formulaic Fiction during the Pandemic
Litteraria Copernicana, 2021 2020 was taxing, and one of the comforting ways of dealing with the uncertainty the COVID-19 pandemic has brought was reading. It seems hardly surprising that the British turned to crime fiction, which they not only avidly consume but also successfully ...
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
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Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, 2021 Militia, Open Up! About Crime Fiction in People’s Poland. Szczecin–Warszawa: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, 2019, 231 Pages In People’s Poland, a distinct type of crime fiction was developed.
Piotr Miłosz Pilarczyk
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Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest [PDF]
Caietele Echinox, 2022 Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing ...
Paul Bleton
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Wirusocentryczne narracje reporterskie z nurtu „mrocznej biologii”
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2020 This paper discuses an eco-apocalyptic non-fiction, which can be described as dark biology (referring to dark fantasy, dark science-fiction or noir crime fiction).
Izabella Adamczewska-Baranowska
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Murder by the book:using crime fiction as a bibliotherapeutic resource [PDF]
, 2016 Crime is a popular genre of fiction, widely read but sometimes seen as ‘throwaway’. Disregarding this type of fiction because it is seen as low quality does not take into account its value to readers.
Brewster, Liz
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Why not translate metaphor in French crime fiction? The case of Cary Férey's Utu
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2014 Crime fiction's positioning as a low status popular genre has implications for the translation of textual markers normally associated with high literature.
Ellen Carter
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Style et idéologie dans le roman noir
Itinéraires, 2015 This article aims to examine the way in which the ideological posture of late twentieth century crime fiction writers impacts on stylistic and structural aspects of the text. Taking novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx and Dominique Manotti
Véronique Desnain
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‘Why can’t y’all be like Perry Mason?’: Black Panther Autobiography Meets Crime Fiction
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 In this study, I examine the autobiographies of four activists associated with the Black Panther Party, namely, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Assata Shakur and Elaine Brown, investigating their use of a number of conventions taken from crime fiction ...
Chloé Avril
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, 2023 This chapter examines the role that the crime novel played in exposing and, conversely, smoothing out the ill effects of capitalism, and of drawing attention to the intersections between crime, business, and the law. It argues that crime fiction’s ability to expose violent wrongdoing speaks to a wafer-thin ethical code in twentieth-century American ...
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction: a review of recent scholarship
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2013 : The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented outpouring of crime fiction from the Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.
John Lingard
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