| Description |
1 online resource (443 p.) |
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Routledge Literature Companions Ser |
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Routledge Literature Companions Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: New directions in crime fiction scholarship -- Bibliography -- Part I Approaches -- 1 Genre -- Classic definitions -- Hybridity and mobility -- Transnationalising crime fiction -- Vanishing borders in Antti Tuomainen's The Healer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2 Counterhistories and prehistories -- The canonisation of detective fiction -- From detective fiction to crime fiction -- Every prehistory is a counterhistory |
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Changing paradigms of detection in Hamlet -- Bibliography -- 3 The crime fiction series -- Serial narrative structures -- Serial infrastructures -- Seriality unbound -- Bibliography -- 4 Crime fiction in the marketplace -- The international book trade -- The international market for crime fiction -- The crime fiction market in action: Jane Harper's The Dry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 5 Adaptations -- Crime adaptation criticism -- Theories of crime adaptation -- Detective Byomkesh Bakshi! -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6 Hybridisation -- The hybridisation of crime fiction |
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Hybridisation and the expansion of the genre -- Testing boundaries: Larsson and Nordic noir -- Lafferty's genre-bending exploration of crime in space -- Globalisation and hybridisation -- Crime fiction at the boundaries -- Bibliography -- 7 Graphic crime novels -- The medium of graphic novels -- Medium and message -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 World literature -- Crime fiction is world literature in an entangled world -- Crime fiction is world literature that gains by generic reproducibility -- Henning Mankell's Wallander series as world literature -- Bibliography -- 9 Translation |
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Translation and the development of national traditions -- Translation strategies and editorial policies -- Judge Dee in international circulation -- Translation effects and genre-specific challenges -- Note -- Bibliography -- 10 Transnationality -- Crime fiction as transnational literature -- The detective, the crime, the reader and the brand -- Transnationality in Andrea Camilleri's The Snack Thief -- Note -- Bibliography -- 11 Gender and sexuality -- Gendering the genre / gender in the genre -- Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison (1930) -- Detecting desire -- Conclusion -- Bibliography |
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12 Race and ethnicity -- Dominant images -- Transnational and postcolonial renderings -- Entanglement and muddledness -- South African post-apartheid crime fiction -- Re-visiting race and ethnicity: Entanglement and transnationalism in Cobra (2014) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 Coloniality and decoloniality -- Crime novel and the empire -- Plotting decoloniality -- Colonial Bengal and the rise of Goyenda (detective) fiction -- Promoda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 Psychoanalysis -- Details in detection -- Letters in circulation -- Holmes's misdirected reading |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Transference in reading |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gulddal, Jesper
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King, Stewart
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Pepper, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9780429842429 |
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0429842422 |
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