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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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‘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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Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon: A Revolutionary Portrait in Tartan- Noir

Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
Considered as one of the most influential crime fiction writers of our time, Val McDermid combines her works with Scotland’s city and town culture. Having the opportunity to closely observe the problems faced by the working class in the town of Fife ...
Yıldırım Özsevgeç
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Crime Fiction: A Global Phenomenon [PDF]

, 2016
Crime fiction, if you choose to classify it in its broadest sense, has a very long history. Detectives can be found in ancient texts from around the world.
Phillips, Bill
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De mica en mica s’omple la pica de Jaume Fuster: un intent de consolidar la novel·la negra i policíaca a Catalunya

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2021
Discussing the Catalan crime fiction may appear as a challenging scientific task due to its lacking autochthonous tradition. The scholars exploring this issue have come to conclusion that, even though there were authors such as Rafael Tasis o Manuel de ...
Magdalena Wegner
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Translating violence in crime fiction [PDF]

, 2017
Translatorial and editorial intervention in the handling of taboo topics or material considered sensitive in the target culture has been well established, especially in the translation of genre literature.
Seago, K.
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Globale fortællinger i den skandinaviske krimi

Akademisk Kvarter, 2011
Gunhild Agger's Global Tales in Scandinavian Crime Fiction - Myths, History, Christianity and Moral Philosophy presents us with some of the reasons behind the Scandinavian crime fiction success at home and globally. One of the best known reasons is that
Gunhild Agger
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Ian Rankin and the ethics of crime fiction [PDF]

, 2008
Writer Ian Rankin has suggested that crime fiction should invoke a self-conscious interrogation of the dark underside of society, that readers should subsequently be drawn toward an ethical engagement with the world around them.
Bell, Eleanor
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Nommer les LGBTQIA+ dans les traductions de polars américains

MediAzioni
This article considers the evolution of representations of LGBTQIA+ characters in French crime fiction imprints between 1945 and 1989, focusing in particular on the Série Noire. It begins with a linguistic analysis of the terms favored by translations of
Camille Bouzereau, Benoît Tadié
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