| Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction Contributor(s): Gulddal, Jesper (Editor), Rolls, Alistair (Editor), King, Stewart (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1789620589 ISBN-13: 9781789620580 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 809.387 |
| LCCN: 2020288640 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 228 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction offers a major intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about crime fiction. It seeks to overturn the following preconceptions: that the genre does not warrant critical analysis, that genre norms and conventions matter more than textual individuality, and that comparative perspectives are secondary to the study of the British-American canon. Criminal Moves challenges the distinction between literary and popular fiction and proposes that crime fiction be seen as constantly violating its own boundaries. Centred on three axes of mobility, the essays ask how can we imagine a mobile reading practice that realizes the genre's full textual complexity, without being limited by the authoritative self-interpretations provided by crime narratives; how we can overcome restrictive notions of 'genre', 'formula' or 'popular'; and how we can establish transnational perspectives that challenge the centrality of the British-American tradition and recognize that the global history of crime fiction is characterized, not by the existence of parallel national traditions, but rather by processes of appropriation and transculturation. Criminal Moves presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of the history of the genre that also has profound ramifications for how we read individual crime fiction texts. |