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2017
Abstract The commonly accepted definition of crime fiction is a work in which crime is central to the plot. The roots of crime fiction are traceable to the earliest human narratives, including the Greek and Roman myths and the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. Sensational accounts of real-life crimes and criminals in gallows confessions,
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Abstract The commonly accepted definition of crime fiction is a work in which crime is central to the plot. The roots of crime fiction are traceable to the earliest human narratives, including the Greek and Roman myths and the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. Sensational accounts of real-life crimes and criminals in gallows confessions,
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PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2021
AbstractThis essay tells the story of how the War on Crime helped remake American crime fiction in the 1960s and 1970s. Amid starkly racialized public anxieties about rising crime rates and urban uprisings, Lyndon B. Johnson officially launched the War on Crime in 1965.
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AbstractThis essay tells the story of how the War on Crime helped remake American crime fiction in the 1960s and 1970s. Amid starkly racialized public anxieties about rising crime rates and urban uprisings, Lyndon B. Johnson officially launched the War on Crime in 1965.
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Crime fiction in the marketplace
, 2020 Crime fiction in the ...
Emmett Stinson (13069020)
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The Reader and World Crime Fiction
2019This chapter reflects on the tension between national-focused and more worldly readings of crime fiction. It treats crime fiction as a form of world literature and examines new ways of conceiving relationships between crime writers, readers and texts that eschew the common categorization of a universal British-American tradition, on the one hand, and ...
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Crime fiction and the environment
2020This chapter argues that the genre is especially well-equipped to mark environmental problems as a result of crime, which makes it a unique tool not only for depicting and discussing ecological crises and abuses, but also for directly exposing the criminal acts they involve and their violent effects on people and the environment.
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2020
This chapter discusses criminology as an interdisciplinary assemblage of fields and practices that attempts to understand the nature of criminality through diverse, often shifting means. It explores how these practices dovetail with crime fiction’s long-standing efforts to explore criminality’s manifestation in modern society.
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This chapter discusses criminology as an interdisciplinary assemblage of fields and practices that attempts to understand the nature of criminality through diverse, often shifting means. It explores how these practices dovetail with crime fiction’s long-standing efforts to explore criminality’s manifestation in modern society.
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Postcolonial crimes: crime fiction and the other
2014Crime fiction and colonial literatures were both established as literary genres in the nineteenth century, and their interrelation has begun to attract the attention of critics working at the intersection between popular genres and the cultural forms produced by colonialism.
N. Vallorani, S. Bertacco
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Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine
2011La fiction a toujours constitué un cadre privilégié offrant l’alibi parfait pour affronter, encadrer et contenir le désir de l’Autre et cette étrange libido liée à la violence : en d’autres termes, il existe une dimension ambivalente inhérente aux scénarios et aux fantasmes dont nous jouissons par procuration.
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