The importance of place in contemporary Italian crime fiction : a bloody journey /

The importance of place in contemporary Italian crime fiction : a bloody journey /

By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last 20 years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the count...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Pezzotti, Barbara.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, Ã2012.
Series:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Italian studies.
Subjects:
Cities and towns in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Detective and mystery stories, Italian > History and criticism.
Italian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Giallo and the city. Milan, the city of crime
  • Turin, between history and news
  • Naples, the sulphurous city
  • Palermo, beauty and the Mafia
  • Giallo and urban sprawl. Sicily between old and new
  • Sardinia, the motherland
  • Interviews.

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