| Description |
1 online resource (315 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
European Crime Fictions
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European crime fictions.
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| Contents |
Introduction to Iberian Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction since the Spanish Civil War; In Search of a New Realism: Manuel Vázquez Montalbánand the Spanish Novela Negra; Detecting Difference/Constructing Community in Basque, Catalan and Galician Crime Fiction; Spanish Women's Crime Fiction, 1980s-2000s: Subvertingthe Conventions of Genre and Gender; Spanish Crime Fiction: 2001 and Beyond; Five Cases from 130 Years of Portuguese Detective Fiction,1870s-2000s; Index. |
| Summary |
Iberian Peninsular Crime Fiction provides a timely introduction in English to a booming literary genre in Spain and Portugal. The volume traces the origins, the developments, and the major authors and works in crime fiction in both Spain and Portugal and provides an analyses of the conditions that favored the use of crime fiction as a vehicle for interrogating the contemporary social and political realities that each author confronted. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, Spanish -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, Spanish. |
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Detective and mystery stories, Portuguese -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, Portuguese. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Vosburg, Nancy, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vosburg, Nancy. Iberian Crime Fiction. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2011 9780708323328 |
| ISBN |
9780708323335 electronic book |
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0708323332 electronic book |
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