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Part of the series Critical insights;Critical insights.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- On crime and detective fiction — Critical contexts. From mean streets to imagined world: the development of detective fiction — Your sin will find you out: critical perceptions of mystery fiction — From the case of the pressed flowers to the serial killer’s torture chamber: the use and function of crime fiction sub-genres in Steig Larsson’s The girl with the dragon tattoo — A comparative assessment: The conjure-man dies, Blind man with a pistol, and Mumbo jumbo — Critical readings. Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction — Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia — Latin American crime fiction — Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels — From hard-boiled detective to fallen man : the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir — The metaphysical detective story — Native American detective fiction — American crime fiction readers and the three percent problem.
- Among the most popular of literary forms, crime fiction has played a central role in the development of national literatures for than a century. Crime and Detective Fiction examines practices of crime writing in American literature and in regions as far and wide as China, Japan, and Scandinavia. This inclusivity results in a diversity of perspectives, in terms of culture, as well as the significance of point of view in telling the tale of a crime. These readings will challenge perspectives on what constitutes good and evil, and lead readers to reexamine assumptions about community, individual rights, and the structure and purpose of the law itself. Edited by Rebecca Martin, Professor of English at Pace University, this collection, part of the Critical Insights series, examines the richness of the field of crime writing and the many ways in which crime, its depiction, and its investigation cross narrative, national, and other boundaries. Readers will appreciate familiar authors in the genre, such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, as well as important new additions, most prominently represented by Steig Larrson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This volume will explore the reasons for crime writing’s popularity and persistence offered by scholars, critics, and readers in the last two or three hundred years, and challenge long-standing assumptions as to the literary significance of crime and detective fiction. Contributors include Joseph Paul Moser, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Malcah Effron, and Sara Karrhom. In addition, supplemental materials include a list of literary works not mentioned in the book and a bibliography of critical sources for further study into the genre. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of Works Cited, along with endnotes. –Publisher’s website.
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