| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) |
| Series |
European crime fictions |
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European crime fictions.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Giuliana Pieri -- 2. Emergence of a New Literary Genre in Interwar Italy / Jane Dunnett -- 3. Founding Fathers: Giorgio Scerbanenco / Jennifer Burns -- 4. Literature and the Giallo: Gadda, Eco, Tabucchi and Sciascia / Joseph Farrell -- 5. Mysteries of Bologna: On Some Trends of the Contemporary Giallo / Luca Somigli -- 6. Crime and the South / Mark Chu -- 7. Italian Women Crime Writers / Lucia Rinaldi -- 8. Milano nera: Representing and Imagining Milan in Italian Noir and Crime Fiction / Giuliana Fieri -- 9. Annotated Bibliography / Lucia Rinaldi |
| Summary |
The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the social and political engagement which characterised the Italian cultural and literary scene in the postwar period. The chapters, by leading British and North-American scholars, track the history and development of Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930s to the present with a particular focus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-154) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, Italian -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
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FICTION -- Crime.
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Detective and mystery stories, Italian
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pieri, Giuliana
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| ISBN |
9780708324332 |
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0708324339 |
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9781783164813 |
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1783164816 |
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1299201059 |
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9781299201057 |
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