Crime Fiction (The New Critical Idiom)
ISBN-13:
9780415318242
ISBN-10:
0415318246
Edition:
1
Author:
John Scaggs
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
184 pages
Category:
Writing
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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
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ISBN-13:
9780415318242
ISBN-10:
0415318246
Edition:
1
Author:
John Scaggs
Publication date:
2005
Publisher:
Routledge
Format:
Paperback
184 pages
Category:
Writing
,
Writing, Research & Publishing Guides
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Crime Fiction (The New Critical Idiom) (ISBN-13: 9780415318242 and ISBN-10: 0415318246), written by authors
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Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:
- presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novel
- explores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction'
- locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical context
- outlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theory
- considers contemporary television series like C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie.
Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.
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