Crime fiction migration : crossing languages, cultures and media /
Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processes in prose and in audiovisual fictional crime 'texts.' It examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating,&#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
[2017]
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| Series: | Advances in stylistics.
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| Summary: | Crime narratives form a large and central part of the modern cultural landscape. This book explores the cognitive stylistic processes in prose and in audiovisual fictional crime 'texts.' It examines instances where such narratives find themselves, through popular demand, 'migrating,' meaning that they cross languages, media formats and/or cultures. In doing so, Crime Fiction Migration proposes a move from a monomodal to multimodal approach to the study of crime fiction. Examining original crime fiction works alongside their translations, adaptations and remakings proves instrumental in understanding how various semiotic modes interact with one another. The book analyzes works such as We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Killing trilogy and the reimaginings of plays such as Shear Madness and films such as Funny Games. Crime fiction is consistently popular and 'on the move.' Witness the spate of detective series exported out of Scandinavia, or the ever popular exporting of these shows from the United States. This multimodal and semiotically-aware analysis of global crime narratives expands the discipline and is key reading for students of linguistics and criminology. |
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| Physical Description: | 196 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474216524 1474216528 |