Scandinavian crime fiction

Scandinavian crime fiction / edited by Andrew Nestingen and Paula Arvas.

Scandinavian Crime Fiction is the first English-language study of crime fiction written in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. It will delight and challenge readers, as it helps them understand more deeply the work of such prominent writers as Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, Ar...

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Other Authors: Nestingen, Andrew K. (Editor), Arvas, Paula (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
Series:European crime fictions.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian > History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian > Adaptations.
Scandinavian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Scandinavian.
Detective and mystery stories, Scandinavian
Scandinavian fiction
Literary criticism
Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Contemporary Scandinavian Crime Fiction; Dirty Harry in the Swedish Welfare State; The Well-Adjusted Cops of the New Millennium: Neo-RomanticTendencies in the Swedish Police Procedural; Meaningless Icelanders: Icelandic Crime Fiction and Nationality; Digging into the Secrets of the Past: Rewriting History in the ModernScandinavian Police Procedural; The Place of Pessimism in Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander Series; Gender and Geography in Contemporary Scandinavian TelevisionCrime Fiction.
  • Straight Queers: Anne Holt's Transnational Lesbian Detective FictionNext to the Final Frontier: Russians in Contemporary Finnish andScandinavian Crime Fiction; Swedish Queens of Crime: the Art of Self-Promotion and the Notionof Feminine Agency
  • Liza Marklund and Camilla Läckberg; High Crime in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature
  • the Caseof Peter Høeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow; Håkan Nesser and the Third Way: of Loneliness, Alibis andCollateral Guilt; Unnecessary Officers: Realism, Melodrama and ScandinavianCrime Fiction in Transition; Index.

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