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Incontri: Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani, 2013 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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Belphégor, 2022 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]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica, 2023 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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Fictions of Organized Crime: Introduction [PDF]
New Readings, 2020 Introduction to the themed issue of New Readings.
Whitfield, Joseph, Altenberg, Tilmann
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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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From Orientalism to Disrupting Whiteness: The Development of Arab American Crime/ Detective Fiction by Diana Abu- Jaber and Laila Lalami [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesDespite the abundance of scholarship on the historical emergence of Arab American literature in general, there is a lack of research on the emergence and the development of Arab American crime/detective fiction in particular.
Asmaa Mansour
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The uncocked gun? representations of masculinity in contemporary crime fiction [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis examines the representation of masculinity in the work of three contemporary male crime writers – George Pelecanos, Henning Mankell and Ian Rankin.
Massey, Susan
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Philip McLaren and the Indigenous-Australian Crime Novel
Coolabah, 2017 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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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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