| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 186 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Table of contents; introduction; crimeless femininity; the law of gender; lady audley and lydia gwilt; re-writing a woman's crime; tess the murderess, eustacia the adder; "the imp of the perverse"; from the murderer's soliloquy to the poisoner's monologue; from confident to murderer; red beads and funeral homes; antigone lost in "the fury of the age of bar-rooms"; the obscene tragedy of the death drive in i hardly knew you, by edna o'brien; the milky wake:sacrifice as jouissance in toni morrison's work; contributors. |
| Summary |
The form of art called fiction has always been the privileged framework providing the perfect alibi for facing, framing, and containing the Other's desire and the strange libido attached to violence: in other words, there is an ambivalent dimension inherent in the scenarios and fantasies we enjoy by proxy. Are not the fairy tales of our childhood full of images of death and violence, whose fascinating presence is paradoxically meant to make us feel all the more safely tucked up in bed? After ... |
| 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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Female offenders in literature.
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Female offenders in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women novelists.
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Women novelists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Abouddahab, Rédouane.
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Paccaud-Huguet, Josiane.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Abouddahab, Redouane. Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2011 9781443827102 |
| ISBN |
9781443828284 (electronic book) |
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1443828289 (electronic book) |
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9781443827102 (hardback) |
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144382710X (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786613142702 |
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