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Item Details
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CRIME FICTION
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| By: |
John Scaggs |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£22.99 |
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£22.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415318246 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415318242 |
| Availability: |
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Currently 7 available |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 January, 2005 |
| Series: |
The New Critical Idiom |
| Pages: |
184 |
| Description: |
Provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide ranging and a hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels short stories, films and television series, the author presents a concise history of crime fiction. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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