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1 online resource (x, 353 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy -- Part One: Beccarian Introspection -- 1 Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal -- 2 Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives -- 3 Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum -- 4 Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom -- Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection -- 5 Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal -- 6 Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence -- 7 Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence -- 8 Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare -- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century. |
| Summary |
Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. Dei delitti e delle pene.
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Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909. Uomo delinquente.
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Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. |
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Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909. |
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Detective and mystery stories, Italian -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, Italian. |
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Crime in literature.
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Crime in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Past, Elena M. Methods of Murder : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442643888 |
| ISBN |
9781442698093 (electronic book) |
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1442698098 (electronic book) |
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