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Regional Crime Fiction

open access: yes, 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

open access: yesArt/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]

open access: yes, 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.

open access: yes[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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Dominique Manotti and the roman noir [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 ...
Kimyonguer, Angela   +2 more
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Kate Atkinson’s Crime Fiction: Exception as a Rule

open access: yesÉtudes 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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Zločin v divočině: Environmentální rozměr současné americké detektivní prózy [PDF]

open access: yesSvět 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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Quand l’enquêteur se met à table

open access: yesCahiers 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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Capacidad criminal, capacidad ficcional, tensiones entre historia y ficción en la novela negra centroamericana [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
La novela negra, muy presente en la producción narrativa actual hispanoamericana, adquiere cada vez más rasgos de lo que Clifford Geertz llama "género confuso". Se borran, cada vez más permeables, las fronteras del género. La novela negra va cobrando más
Jastrzębska, Adriana Sara
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“I Stand Out Like a Raven”: Depicting the Female Detective and Tudor History in Nancy Bilyeau’s The Crown

open access: yesAmerican, 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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