Crime and detective fiction /
"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 Scandinavi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2013. |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- On crime and detective fiction; perversities and pleasures of the texts / Rebecca Martin
- Critical contexts : From mean streets to the imagined world: the development of detective fiction / Ruth Anne Thompson and Jean Fitzgerald
- "Your sin will find you out": critical perceptions of mystery fiction / Elizabeth Foxwell
- 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 / Kerstin Bergman
- A comparative assessment: Rudolph Fisher's The conjure-man dies, Chester Himes' Blind man with a pistol, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo / Nolisha F. Crawford
- Critical readings : Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction / Jeffrey C. Kinkley
- Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia / Amanda Seaman
- Latin American crime fiction / Norlisha F. Crawford
- Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels / Sara Karrholm
- From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir / Joseph Paul Moser
- The metaphysical detective story / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
- Native American detective fiction / Rhonda Harris Taylor
- American crime fiction readers and the 3 percent problem / Malcah Effron.