| The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction Contributor(s): Allan, Janice (Editor), Gulddal, Jesper (Editor), King, Stewart (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138320358 ISBN-13: 9781138320352 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 809.387 |
| LCCN: 2019055758 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (1.95 lbs) 424 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II, Devices, examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III, Interfaces, investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context - from policing and forensic science through war, migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction. |