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Book SynopsisCrime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. The volume covers a wide spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of crime fiction studies. It introduces twenty-four original essays by an international group of scholars divided among three main sections: «Genres», «Authors and Texts» and «Topics». Issues discussed include genre syncretism, intertextuality, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalization, postcolonial literature and ethical aspects of crime fiction.
Table of ContentsContents: Thomas Anessi: Literary Codes of Conduct in PRL Crime Fiction: Barańczak, Joe Alex and the
Powieść Milicyjna – Nina Holst: «Way too meta»: Readers, Writers and Transmedia in
Castle – Nina Muždeka: A Pothead Detective Challenging the Genre: Thomas Pynchon’s
Inherent Vice – Elżbieta Perkowska-Gawlik: The Quest for Identity in Academic Mystery Fiction – Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish: Tartan Noir: Crime, Scotland and Genre in Ian Rankin’s Rebus Novels – Stephen Butler: Banville, Simenon, Stark - An Existential Ménage à Trois – Wolfgang Görtschacher: Constructions of Identity and Intertextuality in Martha Grimes’s
The Black Cat – Ayşegül Kesirli Unur: Cingöz Recai at Work: A Study on Early Turkish Crime Fiction on Film – Arkadiusz Misztal: LSD Investigations: The End of Groovy Times and California Noir in
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon – Monika Rajtak: Investigating Evil: Crime Fiction Remodelled in
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro – Monika Szuba: Bloody Typical: Genre, Intertextuality, and the Gaze in
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh – Jørgen Veisland: Whose Letter? Possession, Position and Detection in Edgar Allan Poe’s «The Purloined Letter» – Jadwiga Węgrodzka: The Detective as Reader: Narration and Interpretation in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Detective Stories – Marta Aleksandrowicz-Wojtyna: Crime Fiction in South Africa? Nadine Gordimer’s Rendition of Crime in «Country Lovers» and «Town Lovers» – Bernd-Peter Lange: South Asian Sleuths: Colonial, Postcolonial, Cosmopolitan – Dorota Babilas: Her Majesty’s Own Murderer? Queen Victoria and Jack the Ripper in Popular Fiction – Rachel Franks: Gender and Genre: Changes in «Women’s Work» in Australian Crime Fiction – Marie Hologa: «Snort for Caledonia» - Drugs, Masculinity and National Identity in Contemporary Scottish Detective Fiction – Miriam Loth: «…the abyss gazes also into you» - Guilt and Innocence in British Golden Age Detective Fiction and Contemporary Crime Novels – Jacqui Miller: An American in Europe: US Colonialism in
The Talented Mr Ripley and
Ripley’s Game – Fiona Peters: The Perverse Charm of the Amoral Serial Killer: Tom Ripley, Dexter Morgan and Seducing the Reader – Cyprian Piskurek: More Than Meets the (Camera) Eye: Detective Fiction in Times of CCTV – Marta Usiekniewicz: The Eating Detective: Food and Masculinity in Robert B. Parker’s Spencer Series – Arco van Ieperen: What’s the Word? Sexism and Political Correctness in the Crime Fiction of Robert B. Parker and Sara Paretsky – Paul D. Brazill: The Tut.
