Crime fiction and ecology : from the local to the global /
This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics wit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge : New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Cambridge elements. Elements in crime narratives.
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| Summary: | This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within its typical stylistic and thematic bounds. Using a comparative methodological approach that draws connections and commonalities between literary crime texts from across a range of geographical locales, including Asia, Europe, Africa, South America, North America and Oceana, it therefore seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole. This necessitates a movement away from considering crime fictions in the context of their distinct and separate national literary traditions, instead emphasizing the global and transnational connections between works. |
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| Physical Description: | 75 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [67]-75). |
| ISBN: | 1009539310 9781009539319 9781009358637 1009358634 |