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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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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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Kate Atkinson’s Crime Fiction: Exception as a Rule

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
This essay discusses the relationship between crime fiction and exception in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels. By definition, crime novels depend on exception because deviation from the ordinary is the starting point of a plot and because they ...
Armelle Parey
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WRITING SOCIOLOGICAL CRIME FICTION

Art/Research International, 2021
In this article I share and discuss a poetic work of experimental sociological crime fiction titled “You Will Have Your Day in Court” (in Crockett Thomas, 2020c).
Phil Crockett Thomas
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Karel Čapek i „renesansa“ češke kriminalističke proze 1958 – 1969.

[sic], 2016
After an entire decade (1948-1957) of being strictly forbidden and anathematized, Czech crime fiction gained sway in the post-February literary life at the end of the fifties.
Matija Ivačić
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'Crime fiction' all'italiana

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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“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2017
This article examines the portrayal of female identity and crime in the Tudor period in Nancy Bilyeau’s contemporary historical crime fiction novel, The Crown (2012). Featuring a female detective figure, Joanna Stafford, Bilyeau’s novel forms part of the
Beyer Charlotte
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Quand l’enquêteur se met à table

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2016
In this article, I will intend to show the long-standing relationship in most crime fiction detectives' lives–that is with food and gastronomy. I will focus on recent Greek crime fiction (especially the novels or short stories of Andreas Apostolidis ...
Loïc Marcou
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Under British Eyes: The Complex Fortune of Italian Crime Fiction

Altre Modernità, 2010
Under British Eyes: The Complex Fortune of Italian Crime Fiction (Mirna Cicioni & Nicoletta Di Ciolla (eds), Differences, Deceits and Desires. Murder and Mayhem in Italian Crime Fiction, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008, 228 p., ISBN 978-0 ...
Nicoletta Vallorani
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