Author: Jesper Gulddal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108605354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction
Author: Jesper Gulddal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108605354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108605354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Author: Martin Priestman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494508
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Author: David Glover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521513375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
Author: David Herman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856965
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
Author: Catherine Ross Nickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521136067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521136067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This Companion examines the range of American crime fiction from execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programmes like The Sopranos.
The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
Author: Rosemary Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195072396
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195072396
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
Author: Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514703
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521189365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521189365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
Author: Edward James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107493730
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
Author: Alastair Hannay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477192
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Accessible guide to Kierkegaard available serving as a reference to students and non-specialists.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521477192
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Accessible guide to Kierkegaard available serving as a reference to students and non-specialists.