The Crime Fiction Handbook
Peter Messent
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
Beschreibung
The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. * Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction * Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches * Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition * Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. * Shows the similarities and differences between British, American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions
Rezensionen
"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."
"Messent's readings are always perceptive and his book offers an excellent introduction to a diverse genre."
"Those interested in the more arcane byways of crime fiction will find this concise but intelligent volume invaluable, with its academic (but accessible) analyses of some of the key texts in the genre. What is perhaps the most valuable aspect of the book is the fact that Peter Messent has managed to unearth new insights into this much written-about subject -- no easy task in the 21st century, when a considerable amount of analysis of the field (including, in a modest way, by this writer) is so endemic." (Crime Time, 27 February 2013) "...at a stroke this volume joins the library of key texts in the field."
"... a good introduction to a prolific genre."
Kundenbewertungen
20th Century & Contemporary American Literature, Literature, Literaturwissenschaft, Englische Literatur / 20. Jhd., English Literature, Englische Literatur, Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke, 20th Century English Literature