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  title info:
    title: Crime fiction
    sub title: a critical casebook
  name:
    name part: Butler, Stephen
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sienkiewicz-Charlish, Agnieszka
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 343 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind the ongoing popularity of crime fiction. It contains twenty-one original essays written by scholars and practitioners of crime fiction which discuss key concepts in crime fiction studies of generic diversity, the evolution of characters and the growing significance of space and place.
  table of contents: More than guilty pleasure: the case of crime fiction / Stephen Butler and Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- Navigating the boarders of reality: Johan Theorin and the gothic revival in Swedish crime fiction / Kerstin Bergman -- Beyond anthropocentrism: transformations of criminal genre in science fiction / Maurice N. Fadel -- Chekhov as crime writer: detecting intertextuality in the "safety match" / Marcia A. Morris -- A mirror of society: Japanese crime fiction / Wendy Jones Nakanishi -- "Mock turtle": Dorothy L. Sayers, the golden age detective novel, and modernist fiction / Eric Sandberg -- Gothic Crimes: Rebus and the ghosts of the past / Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- "Beyond our illusory homelands": representability, deception, and epistemological angst in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning (2012) / Monika Szuba -- Diegetic border-crossing in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple short stories / Jadwiga Węgrodzka -- Curious incident of the lost children / Stephen Butler -- From Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Donan Coyle's Shairlock Holtes: the beginnings of the Italian canon of crime fiction / Marianna D'Ezio -- Zen, existentialism and crime: Janwillem van de Wetering's Amsterdam cops / Arco van Leperen -- "Fuckin' cheesecake. Of course there's a contract out on us and all": adapting George V. Higgins / Gill Jamieson and Tony Grace -- Neo-Victorian revisions of inspector abberline: from Hell & Ripper Street / Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko -- The detection of crime vs. the crime of detection: P.D. James's Uneasy Detectives / Miriam Loth -- Ethnicity and criminality in Richard Head's the English rogue described in the Life of Meriton Latroon (1665) / Barry Montgomery -- The stage on the page: William Shakespeare and Ngaio Marsh / Simon Dwyer and Rachel Franks -- Stockholm in a rapidly changing world as seen in the crime fiction of Sjwall and Wahl (1965-75) and Jens Lapidus (2006-2011) / Daniel Ogden -- Tracking criminal journeys into the dark folds of the metropolis: Nico…
  note: Stephen Butler, Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish (eds.).
  note: "This publication was financially supported by the University of Gdansk, Institute of English and American Studies"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Noir fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Crime in literature
  classification: PN3448.D4 C733 2018
  classification: 809.3/872
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; v. 24
  identifier: 9783631662298
  identifier: 3631662297
  identifier: 9783653052299
  identifier: 9783631706329
  identifier: 9783631706336
  identifier: 2018013479
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180411
    record change date: 20190422100137.0
    record identifier: in00004038667