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1 online resource (129 pages) |
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Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English |
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Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- OLGA ROEBUCK -- London in the Cormoran Strike Series -- London as a Crime Scene -- London and Strike's Displacement -- Walker in the City -- Conclusion -- JULIA KULA -- London as the Murderer's Playground in Sharon Bolton's Now You See Me -- The Phenomenon of Jack the Ripper -- The Birth -- Jack the Ripper in the Media -- Spatialising Crime Fiction: Chronotopic Dimension of Police Procedurals -- Now You See Me -- The Return of 1888 Terror? -- Chronotopic Significance of Space in the Novel -- Conclusion |
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TEREZA TOPOLOVSKÁ -- Through the Looking-Glass: Space and Place in Simon Mawer's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky -- A Literary Spy Novel -- Space and Place in The Girl Who Fell from the Sky -- The Girl Who Fell from the Sky through a Geocritical Perspective -- Conclusion -- ELŻBIETA PERKOWSKA-GAWLIK -- Murderous Academics: Territoriality in Cynthia Kuhn's Academic Mysteries -- Academic Mystery as a Genre -- Academia and the Idyllic Chronotope -- Academics and Their Territoriality -- Conclusion -- JOZEF PECINA -- Suburbia and the Subversion of Its Values in 1950s Crime Comics |
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The Rise of American Suburbs -- Crime Comics -- Subversion of Suburban Values -- Conclusion -- ŠÁRKA BUBÍKOVÁ -- Wilderness in Dana Stabenow's and Nevada Barr's Crime Fiction Series -- Wilderness as Environment -- Crime and the Element of Fire -- Conclusion -- ALENA SMIEŠKOVÁ" -- I Am the Wave that Sinks into the Ocean": The Sense of Place in The Affair -- Introduction -- TV Culture -- Self-fashioning Space -- The Affair -- "The Rashomon of Relationship Drama" -- Montauk -- Real and Imagined -- The "Lived Space" -- Conclusion -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors |
| Summary |
Places and Spaces of Crime in Popular Imagination ventures into the realms of genre literature to explore its rendering of locations and spaces. It brings a varied theoretical framework to the exploration of genres such as crime fiction, the spy novel, the academic mystery, crime comics, and crime film |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism
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Setting (Literature)
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Space in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Crime in literature.
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setting (surroundings)
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Crime in literature
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Detective and mystery stories
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Setting (Literature)
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Space in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bubíková, Šárka
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| ISBN |
8323372144 |
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9788323372141 |
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