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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Crime novel"”.
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Talion: A tragedy
… involved. Told is short, punchy chapters, the novel follows Freya as she begins to stalk Abraham, who she identifies as her brother's killer, Nolwazi as she tries to solve Ben's murder, a case she cannot give her full attention to, Slick as he tries to maintain his criminality in an …
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Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa
… in the blending of popular genres in selected novels from Giorgio Scerbanenco’s middle period (specifically, 1949-1963). Long characterised as popular romances (romanzi rosa), a form of literature particularly susceptible to critical disdain, these works have received virtually no study. As a …
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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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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to these complex historical circumstances, my aim …