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1 online resource (348 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Textxet, studies in comparative literature,
0927-5754 ;
56
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 56.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from over a dozen countries, confirms that a comparative approach can both shed light on processes of adaptation and appropriation of the genre within specific national, regional or local contexts, and also uncover similarities between the works of authors from very different areas. |
| Contents |
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Investigating Identities; NATIONALITY INTERNATIONAL: DETECTIVE FICTION IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY; ARTICULATING AND DISARTICULATING CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN VZQUEZ MONTALBN'S SERIE CARVALHO; POPULAR GENRE AND THE POLITICS OF THE PERIPHERY: CATALAN CRIME FICTION BY WOMEN; QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY: AN EXPLORATION OF SPANISH DETECTIVE FICTION; ABYSS OF THE SENSES: LES RIVIRES POURPRES BY JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRANG; FRACTURED IDENTITIES: JEAN-CLAUDE IZZO'S TOTAL KHOPS; DETECTING ETHNICITY: JAKOB ARJOUNI AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING GERMAN DETECTIVE NOVEL. |
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Double identity: hard-boiled detective fiction and the divided "i"plum's the girl! janet evanovich and the empowerment of ms common america; murder and love: russian women detective writers; perspectives on the detective novel in afrikaans; wanted: national algerian identity; "troubling" thrillers: politics and popular fiction in northern ireland literature; double dutch: image and identity in dutch and flemish. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories. |
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Krajenbrink, Marieke.
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Quinn, Kate M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Investigating identities. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009 9789042025295 9042025298 (OCoLC)310617936 |
| ISBN |
9781441606594 (electronic book) |
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1441606599 (electronic book) |
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9789042025295 (paperback) |
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9042025298 (paperback) |
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9789042029170 |
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904202917X |
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