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Book Synopsis A Companion to Crime Fiction by : Charles J. Rzepka
Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by : Martin Priestman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction by : Janice Allan
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction written by Janice Allan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of crime fiction. Part III, Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Rigorously argued and engagingly written, the volume is indispensable both to students and scholars of crime fiction.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by : Rosemary Herbert
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing written by Rosemary Herbert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Book Synopsis Mary Elizabeth Braddon by : Anne-Marie Beller
Download or read book Mary Elizabeth Braddon written by Anne-Marie Beller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist." Though critics called her work immoral, Braddon's novels influenced the detective fiction of the late Victorian period. With entries on all her published writing, characters, relationships and influences, and themes and contexts, as well as numerous illustrations, a career chronology, and a chronological and alphabetical listing of all of her works, this companion to Braddon's mystery fiction is the definitive reference on this provocative but overlooked writer.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by : Catherine Ross Nickerson
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction written by Catherine Ross Nickerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
Book Synopsis The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction by : Lucy Andrew
Download or read book The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction written by Lucy Andrew and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role—either to act as the foil to the detective in order to accentuate their own abilities at solving crimes, or else to simply tell the story to the reader. Instead, essays in the collection explore the representations and functions of the detective’s sidekick across a range of forms and subgenres of crime fiction. By incorporating forms such as children’s detective fiction, comics and graphic novels and film and television alongside the more traditional fare of novels and short stories, this book aims to break down the boundaries that sometimes exist between these forms, using the sidekick as a defining thread to link them together into a wider conceptual argument that covers a broad range of crime narratives.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction by : Jesper Gulddal
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction written by Jesper Gulddal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
Book Synopsis Ed McBain/Evan Hunter by : Erin E. MacDonald
Download or read book Ed McBain/Evan Hunter written by Erin E. MacDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter ego, Ed McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes. From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of this versatile writer.
Book Synopsis Detective Fiction by : Charles J. Rzepka
Download or read book Detective Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Detective Fiction' is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood characters and texts of the modern day. Undergraduate students of Detective and Crime Fiction and of genre fiction in general, will find this book essential reading.
Download or read book Ian Rankin written by Erin E. MacDonald and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author. Most well known for his Inspector Rebus series--which has earned critical acclaim as well as scores of fans worldwide--Rankin is a prolific author whose other works include spy thrillers, nonfiction books and articles, short stories, novels, graphic novels, audio recordings, television/film, and plays. This companion--the first to provide a complete look at all of his writings--includes alphabetized entries on Rankin's works, characters, and themes; a biography; a chronology; maps of Rebus' Edinburgh; and an annotated bibliography. A champion of both Edinburgh and Scotland, Rankin continues to combine engaging entertainment with socio-political commentary showing Edinburgh as a microcosm of Scotland, and Scotland as a microcosm of the world. His writing investigates questions of Scottish identity, British history, masculinity, and contemporary culture while providing mystery readers with complex, suspenseful plots, realistic character development, and a unique mix of American hard-boiled and procedural styles with Scottish dialects and sensibilities.
Book Synopsis 100 American Crime Writers by : S. Powell
Download or read book 100 American Crime Writers written by S. Powell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
Book Synopsis Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction by : Stephen Knight
Download or read book Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction written by Stephen Knight and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-11-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classic Crime Stories by : James Daley
Download or read book Classic Crime Stories written by James Daley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13 tantalizing tales including the first real detective story, Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "The Blue Cross," the first Father Brown tale by Chesterton; "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Doyle, plus stories by Hammett and Chandler.
Book Synopsis Contemporary German Crime Fiction by : Thomas W. Kniesche
Download or read book Contemporary German Crime Fiction written by Thomas W. Kniesche and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to contemporary German crime fiction for English-speaking audiences is overdue. Starting with the earlier Swiss “classics” Glauser and Dürrenmatt and including a number of important Austrian authors, such as Wolf Haas and Heinrich Steinfest, this volume will cover the essential writers, genres, and themes of crime fiction written in German. Where necessary and appropriate, crime fiction in media other than writing (TV-series, movies) will be included. Contemporary social and political developments, such as gender issues, life in a multicultural society, and the afterlife of German fascism today, play a crucial role in much of recent German crime fiction. A number of contributions to this volume will comment on the literary reflection of these issues in the texts. The goal of the volume is to make available to English-speaking audiences, to students, teachers and to a wider circle of interested readers, a series of articles on genres, topics, authors, and texts that will help them understand the scope and depth of German crime fiction, its ties to international traditions and also the specificity of the German context, its historical development and contemporary situation.
Book Synopsis The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction by : Michael Ashley
Download or read book The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction written by Michael Ashley and published by Constable. This book was released on 2002 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction by : Martin Priestman
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction written by Martin Priestman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the 'detective' fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in the eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form.
