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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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“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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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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Under British Eyes: The Complex Fortune of Italian Crime Fiction

open access: yesAltre 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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Val McDermid's Lindsay Gordon: A Revolutionary Portrait in Tartan- Noir

open access: yesDil 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

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter examines the role that the crime novel played in exposing and, conversely, smoothing out the ill effects of capitalism, and of drawing attention to the intersections between crime, business, and the law. It argues that crime fiction’s ability to expose violent wrongdoing speaks to a wafer-thin ethical code in twentieth-century American ...
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Crime fiction and digital media

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter distinguishes between distributing texts in a digitised form and digital fiction/digital textual forms; all these are products of the digital revolution, which has its roots in the recent development of communication and information technologies.
Välisalo, Tanja   +3 more
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Nommer les LGBTQIA+ dans les traductions de polars américains

open access: yesMediAzioni
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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The Image Of Crime In The Scientific-Fantastic Configuration Of The Future

open access: yesАрхів кримінології та судових наук, 2022
One of the forms of expression of new knowledge is science fiction, which projects images of evil. The latter is manifested in personal, cultural, social, political, and other contexts, in various manifestations of crime.
Oleksii Lytvynov, Hanna Spitsyna
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European crime fiction: The novels of Fred Vargas and Andrea Camilleri [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This dissertation considers the crime fiction of French writer, Fred Vargas and Italian writer, Andrea Camilleri. It places them in the context of the current growing popularity of crime fiction as a literary genre and their place in the literary history
West, Sue
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