John Scaggs

Crime Fiction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134368242
• Artikelnr.: 47885119

Autorenporträt

John Scaggs is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include Modern Fiction, with a particular emphasis on crime fiction and revenge tragedy, the Gothic and Literary Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1. A Chronology of Crime: Early Crime Narratives Crime
Stories as Cautionary Tales Crime Fiction and Policing The Golden Age to
the Present Chapter 2. Mystery and Detective Fiction: Retracing the Steps
The Origins of Mystery Fiction Reasoning Machines: The Figure of the
Amateur Detective Escalating Crimes: From Purloined Letters to Murder
Maintaining Social Order and the Status Quo Settings and Sub-Genres
Chapter 3. The Hard-boiled Mode: Murder for a Reason Origins and
Development A Shop-Soiled Galahad: The Private Eye Hero Last Chances and
New Beginnings: The Myth of the Frontier Mean Streets and Rat's Alleys:
Modernity and the City Fallen Angels: Appropriation of the Hard-Boiled Mode
Chapter 4. The Police Procedural: Thin Blue Lines Fiction as Ideological
State Apparatus Private Eye to Public Eye: The Development of the
Procedural Textual Investigations: Characteristics of the Procedural,
Social Placebo The Magic Bullet of Procedural Reassurance Arrested
Developments: Appropriations of the Procedural Chapter 5. The Crime
Thriller: Outlining the Crime Thriller The Noir Thriller The
Anti-Conspiracy Thriller 6. Historical Crime Fiction: Writing History and
Interpreting the Past Crime, History and Realism The Case of the Name of
the Rose Postmodernism and the Anti-Detective Novel