Crime Files

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

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Chronologie aller Bände (1 - 11)

Die Reihenfolge beginnt mit dem Buch "Contemporary American Crime Fiction". Wer alle Bücher der Reihe nach lesen möchte, sollte mit diesem Band von Hans Bertens beginnen. Der zweite Teil der Reihe "100 British Crime Writers" ist am 13.11.2020 erschienen. Mit insgesamt 11 Bänden wurde die Reihe über einen Zeitraum von ungefähr 19 Jahren fortgesetzt. Der neueste Band trägt den Titel "100 British Crime Writers".

  • Anzahl der Bewertungen für die gesamte Reihe: 37
  • Ø Bewertung der Reihe: 4.09
  • Start der Reihe: 15.10.2001
  • Neueste Folge: 13.11.2020

Diese Reihenfolge enthält 10 unterschiedliche Autoren.

Cover: Contemporary American Crime Fiction
  • Autor: Bertens, Hans
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 2.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 25.10.2001
  • Genre: Krimi

Contemporary American Crime Fiction

This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.
Cover: Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction
  • Autor: Gregoriou, C.
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 2.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 30.01.2007
  • Genre: Krimi

Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.
Cover: A Counter-History of Crime Fiction
  • Autor: Ascari, Maurizio
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 3
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 05.09.2007
  • Genre: Krimi

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction

This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.
Cover: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature
  • Autor: Godfrey, E.
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 4.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 03.12.2010
  • Genre: Krimi

Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature

Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.
Cover: 100 American Crime Writers
  • Autor: Powell, S.
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 07.08.2012
  • Genre: Krimi

100 American Crime Writers

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.
Cover: British Crime Film
  • Autor: Forshaw, Barry
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 6
  • Ø Bewertung: 4.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 20.09.2012
  • Genre: Krimi

British Crime Film

Presenting a social history of British crime film, this book focuses on the strategies used in order to address more radical notions surrounding class, politics, sex, delinquency, violence and censorship. Spanning post-war crime cinema to present-day "Mockney" productions, it contextualizes the films and identifies important and neglected works.
Cover: Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society
  • Autor: Godfrey, E.
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 2
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 26.10.2012
  • Genre: Krimi

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society

This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
Cover: Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
  • Autor: Clarke, C.
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 2
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 26.09.2014
  • Genre: Krimi

Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.
Cover: Serial Crime Fiction
  • Autor: Miranda, Carolina
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 27.08.2015
  • Genre: Krimi

Serial Crime Fiction

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.
Cover: Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction
  • Autor: Jaber, Maysaa Husam
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 1
  • Ø Bewertung: 5.0
  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 01.11.2015
  • Genre: Krimi

Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.
Cover: 100 British Crime Writers
  • Autor: Miskimmin, Esme
  • Anzahl Bewertungen: 0
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  • Medium: Buch
  • Veröffentlicht: 13.11.2020
  • Genre: Krimi

100 British Crime Writers

100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: ‘The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918’; ‘The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945’; ‘Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989’; and ‘To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015’, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.

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