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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Crime Fiction"”.
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… the certainties of traditional detective fiction to these complex historical circumstances, my aim was to uncover a form of storytelling that would depict truth and justice as problematic and elusive entities, eschewing the type of conventional ending in which order is restored and the …
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A Mongrel Tradition: Contemporary Scottish Crime Fiction and its Transatlantic Contexts
This thesis discusses contemporary Scottish crime fiction in light of its transatlantic contexts. It argues that, despite participating in a globalized popular genre, examples of Scottish crime fiction nevertheless meaningfully intervene in notions of Scottishness. The first chapter examines …
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Down These Mean Streets: Textuality & the Search for Meaning in Crime Fiction
At the basis of all crime fiction seems to be a fundamental preoccupation with the pursuit of knowledge and truth, and consequently, a premise that these may be acquired through a process of systematic analysis. Closely tied in to this search for meaning is the genre's interest in textuality, …
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Inside job? How cultural outsiders write, translate, and read cross-‐cultural crime fiction
… and international reception of cross-‐cultural crime fiction, taking as exemplars two novels set in New Zealand by French crime writer Caryl Férey: Haka (1998) and Utu (2004). I first situate Férey against corpus norms of South Pacific French crime fiction and of New Zealand crime fiction and …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
… examines how adaptations of the hard-boiled crime genre have become tools for literary innovation and social criticism in the work of four contemporary authors. Since the 1970s, influential writers such as Rubem Fonseca in Brazil and Ricardo Piglia in Argentina have established new national …
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Vanishing Vectors: Trains and Speed in Modern French Crime Fiction and Film (1877--1955)
… bataille du rail. I draw together key moments of crime and violence aboard trains in a wide variety of French literary and cinematic genres, such as Louis Feuillade's silent crime serials, spy novels of the 1930s, and romans noirs of the 1940s and 50s to show that violence, trains, and individuals …
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Return to the scene of the crime: The returnee detective and postcolonial crime fiction
This thesis investigates the ways in which the crime novel genre has been taken up and adapted in order to depict and grapple with ideas of justice in selected postcolonial contexts. It approaches this investigation through the figure of the 'returnee detective' in these texts and determines how …
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n Interseksionele lees van Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadtrilogie (An intersectional reading of Bettina Wyngaard�s crime-fiction trilogy)
Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie-trilogie, bestaande uit die romans Vuilspel (2013), Slaafs (2016) en Jagter (2019) het �n vernuwende uitwerking in die Afrikaanse literatuur gehad. Dit kan hoofsaaklik teruggevoer word na die skrywer se gebruik van �n (swart) lesbiese protagonis. Wyngaard is ook …
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Termination
… is a genre novel which follows a contemporary crime fiction format. It adheres closely to the narrative shape of modem mystery books, containing the essential elements which constitute a work in this field. With a few twists. Contemporary crime fiction can follow a couple of paths along the way …
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Flawed Feminism: An Exploration of Femininity in Contemporary Domestic Noir
<p>Crime fiction is a genre whose female characters are often misunderstood, weak, powerless victims. Domestic noir, a subgenre of crime fiction, does the opposite. Authors of domestic noir fiction dig into the female experiences, seeking to understand and write women characters who represent …
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Tyd as struktuurelement in speur- en misdaadfiksie met spesifieke verwysing na drie tekste deur Deon Meyer
This study explores the structure of crime and detective fiction. It takes the view that certain texts do not adopt either form specifically, but often adopts a combination thereof. It looks at the role which time plays in the structure of these forms by examining the time strategies that are …
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La vigencia de lo <i>r/Real</i>: la memoria traumática y el relato policial postdictatorial en Argentina y Chile, 1996–2015
<p>The present dissertation investigates crime fiction produced in Argentina and Chile between 1996 and 2015. It offers an analytical and critical reflection on five Argentinian works (four novels and one movie) and four Chilean novels. The Argentinian corpus includes the novels <em>El secreto y …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… studies Latin American narratives of crime in the twenty-first century, arguing that these texts waver between the hyper-rationality of the crime fiction genre, and an affective state of paranoia. This project argues for a new understanding of crime fiction in the region, one that is …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
Particularly unique in true and fictionalized crime narratives is the serial killer; a criminal overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, and understood by cultural scholars like Mark Seltzer and David Schmid as distinctly American. This thesis offers a concerted look at one such figure: Lester …
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The Zumbrota
… I look at the history of the serial detective in crime fiction and examine how serial detectives fit into the discussion of round and flat characters as defined by E.M. Forster and James Wood. Through the discussion of serial detectives as round and flat characters, I ultimately examine the …
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The Politics of Victimhood and Representation in Crime Literature
… of victimhood across the genres of crime fiction and true crime literature through case studies that illuminate the intersection of identity, representations of victimhood, and audiences’ understandings of victimhood. As Rebecca Wanzo argues in The Suffering Will Not Be Televised, …
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Nuove intersezioni: crimine e storia nella narrativa Italiana al cambio di millennio
… of the genres of the historical novel and crime fiction in the last fifteen years, in order to underline the important role played by these types of narrative in revitalizing contemporary Italian literature. These modalities of writing are considered both individually and in their …
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The vigilante strain and the spaces of the state in contemporary fiction
… of the vigilante in select works of contemporary fiction. Vigilantism is a concept that has no stable definition and varies in terms of the vigilante’s characteristics, motivations and aims. Popular culture manifestations of the vigilante portray the figure as an avenger, seeking vengeance for …
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Azione destabilizzante e impegno politico. Le figure femminili tra il giallo e il nero Italiani dal 1980 a oggi
My thesis analyses female figures in Italian crime fiction since 1980, from narratological, sociological and gender-studies perspectives. It considers the narrative structure of the giallo and the noir, taking into account the difficulties, particularly in Italy, of establishing what noir fiction …
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What we don't know: liminality, marginality and narrative mode in David Belbin's fiction
… drawn towards marginal and liminal zones within fiction, including the areas between Young Adult (YA) and Adult fiction, crime fiction and literary fiction, and that between depicting reality and fictionalising it. I also consider the use of narrative mode in defining these liminal areas. By …
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