Elements in Crime Narratives – serie
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20 produkter
Crime Fiction and Ecology
From the Local to the Global
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within …
Female Anger in Crime Fiction
Häftad, 2024
324 kr
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Feminist anger is having a moment, but the double meaning of 'mad' as angry and crazy has shaped the representation of women in popular crime fiction since Lady Audley burned down the house over 150 years ago. But when is anger just, when is it revenge, and when is it maddening? This Element will …
Bloodlines
Adoption, Crime, and the Search for Belonging
Av Jinny Huh
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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This study explores the relationship between crime fiction and adoption. A primary goal of this study is to investigate how the adoption trope reveals current cultural fears and fascination with kinship formations and essentialist notions of belonging, DNA and ancestry searches, and the …
Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery Narratives
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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This Element provides an in-depth analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory. Beginning with an overview of important game studies concepts, the Element argues that the narrative effects of video games cannot …
Forensic Crime Fiction
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of these novels, arguing that there are historical continuities with earlier forms of contact with the dead body. Refuting claims that the female forensic examiner exhibits traits of …
Surveillance Noir
Being Watched in Twenty-First-Century Film and Literature
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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In the preface to Feminist Surveillance, Mark Andrejevic argues: 'if in the physical environment the pressing issue of the next several decades is likely to be the dramatic transformation of the global climate, in the social realm, the main issue will be the shifting surveillance climate.' This …
Writing the Detectives
Character and the Series Form
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Crime fiction first emerged in the Victorian era and its series form continues to dominate the genre. Despite the prevalence of crime series, very little research has been done on how character is conceived. The Element's focus is contemporary, from the 1970s onward, and it determines the theory …
Writing the Detectives
Character and the Series Form
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Crime fiction first emerged in the Victorian era and its series form continues to dominate the genre. Despite the prevalence of crime series, very little research has been done on how character is conceived. The Element's focus is contemporary, from the 1970s onward, and it determines the theory …
Sex Work and Crime Fiction
Margins of Desire
Inbunden, 2026
867 kr
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This Element argues that the sex worker character in crime narratives, often dismissed as a flat stereotype or mere plot device, actively performs crucial narratological labor that shapes the novel's realism and challenges conventional understandings of character, agency, and social reproduction. …
Sex Work and Crime Fiction
Margins of Desire
Häftad, 2026
274 kr
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This Element argues that the sex worker character in crime narratives, often dismissed as a flat stereotype or mere plot device, actively performs crucial narratological labor that shapes the novel's realism and challenges conventional understandings of character, agency, and social reproduction. …
Forensic Crime Fiction
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
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This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of these novels, arguing that there are historical continuities with earlier forms of contact with the dead body. Refuting claims that the female forensic examiner exhibits traits of …
The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan
Between Honkaku and Henkaku
Av Satomi Saito
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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This Element traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan's twentieth-century cultural climate. It begins with the genre's prewar formation, focusing on Edogawa Rampo's shift …
The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan
Between Honkaku and Henkaku
Av Satomi Saito
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan's twentieth-century cultural climate. It begins with the genre's prewar formation, focusing on Edogawa Rampo's shift …
Crime Fiction and Ecology
From the Local to the Global
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It opens with the suggestion that there are certain formal limits to the genre's capacity to accommodate and interrogate these multifaceted dynamics within …
Female Anger in Crime Fiction
Inbunden, 2024
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Feminist anger is having a moment, but the double meaning of 'mad' as angry and crazy has shaped the representation of women in popular crime fiction since Lady Audley burned down the house over 150 years ago. But when is anger just, when is it revenge, and when is it maddening? This Element will …
Bloodlines
Adoption, Crime, and the Search for Belonging
Av Jinny Huh
Inbunden, 2025
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study explores the relationship between crime fiction and adoption. A primary goal of this study is to investigate how the adoption trope reveals current cultural fears and fascination with kinship formations and essentialist notions of belonging, DNA and ancestry searches, and the …
Interactivity and Meta-Engagement in Digital Mystery Narratives
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Element provides an in-depth analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory. Beginning with an overview of important game studies concepts, the Element argues that the narrative effects of video games cannot …
Surveillance Noir
Being Watched in Twenty-First-Century Film and Literature
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the preface to Feminist Surveillance, Mark Andrejevic argues: 'if in the physical environment the pressing issue of the next several decades is likely to be the dramatic transformation of the global climate, in the social realm, the main issue will be the shifting surveillance climate.' This …
Corsican Crime Fiction
A Shifting Landscape
Av Clara Sitbon
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
Kommande
This Element brings to light crime fiction from Corsica, a French-administered Mediterranean island with a distinct language, culture, and history of political resistance. It proposes that Corsican crime narratives engage with crime fiction conventions not through straightforward adoption or …
Corsican Crime Fiction
A Shifting Landscape
Av Clara Sitbon
Inbunden, 2026
910 kr
Kommande
This Element brings to light crime fiction from Corsica, a French-administered Mediterranean island with a distinct language, culture, and history of political resistance. It proposes that Corsican crime narratives engage with crime fiction conventions not through straightforward adoption or …
