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, 2022 This chapter examines the problem of the region in world crime fiction – the extent to which a regional approach to crime fiction offers a way of moving between the national and global. It focusses on the Mediterranean and what is called Mediterranean or Southern European noir and examines works by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jean-Claude Izzo, Andrea ...
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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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Book review: Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl, Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way [PDF]
, 2015 Comic Book Crime examines crime, justice and law and order as depicted in American comic books, while simultaneously examining the manner in which complex criminological perspectives often manifest themselves as retributive or incapacitation narratives ...
Nurse, Angus
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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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Zločin v divočině: Environmentální rozměr současné americké detektivní prózy [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2022 In the last decades, crime fiction has proliferated into many subgenres, which are often analyzed from feminist, neo-Marxist, psychoanalytical, or postcolonial perspectives; however, hardly any attention has been paid to ecocritical approach. Focusing on
Šárka Bubíková , Olga Roebuck
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Dominique Manotti and the roman noir [PDF]
, 2012 Dominique Manotti's crime fiction novels have as their setting a variety of contemporary political and economic issues, a deliberate choice for an author who sees her work not as traditional detective novels, where order is reestablished upon the ...
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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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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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‘Complex’ Crime Fiction and the Politics of Ongoing-ness: Don Winslow's War against Endings
Crime Fiction Studies, 2020 In pointing out that beginnings and endings merge in Don Winslow's ‘drug war’ trilogy – The Power of the Dog (2005), The Cartel (2015), and The Border (2019) – I argue that his narratives, like the ‘war on drugs’ itself, are ‘ongoing.’ Taking the ...
Andrew Pepper
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]
, 2015 The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
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