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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"crime writing"”.
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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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The Talus
… their retirement, the men have taken to solving crimes for a hobby. Retirement is not cheap, so they want to break into crime writing. When they discover Jonah writes tinny detective novels, Sam and Jasper are mesmerized by the prospects of golden opportunities dangling, once Jonah awakes. …
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Crime Fiction of Crisis: New Neo-Realism in the Age of Berlusconi from 1990 to 2010
This dissertation focuses on selected crime novels by Grazia Verasani, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Carlo Lucarelli, Luciano Marrocu, Massimo Carlotto and Giancarlo De Cataldo written between 1990 and 2010, the years known as the era of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an age that is symbolic, …
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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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Representations of convicts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture
… interaction between mainstream and elite writing, and the influence of literary representations on the perception of criminals, which shaped political decisions and penal policy. The first chapter of the study suggests that convicts gave a face to nineteenth-century concerns about the …