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Crime Fiction (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,373
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Crime Fiction (Hardcover): John Scaggs

Crime Fiction (Hardcover)

John Scaggs; Series edited by John Drakakis

Series: The New Critical Idiom

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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.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The New Critical Idiom
Release date: 2005
First published: 2005
Authors: John Scaggs
Series editors: John Drakakis
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-31825-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > General
Books > Children's & Educational > Language & literature > English (including English as a school subject) > English literary criticism > General
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > General
LSN: 0-415-31825-4
Barcode: 9780415318259

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