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Crime Fiction

By John Scaggs

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2005
ISBN
9780415318242, 0415318246
LCC
PR830.C74 S28 2005
Open Library ID
OL22614258M
Language
english
Format
DOCX
Filesize
223 kB (227963 bytes)
Series
The New Critical Idiom
Pages
184\0
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs: *presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel *explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction' *locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context *outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory *considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.

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