Beschreibung:
"This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind the ongoing popularity of crime fiction. It contains twenty-one original essays written by scholars and practitioners of crime fiction which discuss key concepts in crime fiction studies: generic diversity, the evolution of characters and the growing significance of space and place"--
More than guilty pleasure: the case of crime fiction / Stephen Butler and Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- Navigating the boarders of reality: Johan Theorin and the gothic revival in Swedish crime fiction / Kerstin Bergman -- Beyond anthropocentrism: transformations of criminal genre in science fiction / Maurice N. Fadel -- Chekhov as crime writer: detecting intertextuality in the "safety match" / Marcia A. Morris -- A mirror of society: Japanese crime fiction / Wendy Jones Nakanishi -- "Mock turtle": Dorothy L. Sayers, the golden age detective novel, and modernist fiction / Eric Sandberg -- Gothic Crimes: Rebus and the ghosts of the past / Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish -- "Beyond our illusory homelands": representability, deception, and epistemological angst in John Burnside's A Summer of Drowning (2012) / Monika Szuba -- Diegetic border-crossing in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple short stories / Jadwiga Węgrodzka -- Curious incident of the lost children / Stephen Butler -- From Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Donan Coyle's Shairlock Holtes: the beginnings of the Italian canon of crime fiction / Marianna D'Ezio -- Zen, existentialism and crime: Janwillem van de Wetering's Amsterdam cops / Arco van Leperen -- "Fuckin' cheesecake. Of course there's a contract out on us and all": adapting George V. Higgins / Gill Jamieson and Tony Grace -- Neo-Victorian revisions of inspector abberline: from Hell & Ripper Street / Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko -- The detection of crime vs. the crime of detection: P.D. James's Uneasy Detectives / Miriam Loth -- Ethnicity and criminality in Richard Head's the English rogue described in the Life of Meriton Latroon (1665) / Barry Montgomery -- The stage on the page: William Shakespeare and Ngaio Marsh / Simon Dwyer and Rachel Franks -- Stockholm in a rapidly changing world as seen in the crime fiction of Sjwall and Wahl (1965-75) and Jens Lapidus (2006-2011) / Daniel Ogden -- Tracking criminal journeys into the dark folds of the metropolis: Nicoletta Vallorani's Dentro la notte, e ciao / Anna Pasolini -- A criminal heterotopia of university libraries or the doubling "of other space" in academic mystery fiction / Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik -- Crime fiction and politics: an autopsy / Paul Johnston -- Reading readers of crime fiction?: potentialities and limits of the analysis of online reviews as resource for literary studies / Janneke Rauscher -- Emmy / David Malcolm