Italian crime fiction

Italian crime fiction / edited by Giuliana Pieri.

The present volume is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian crime fiction, weaving together a historical perspective and a thematic approach, with a particular focus on the representation of space, especially city space, gender, and the tradition of impegno, the so...

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Other Authors: Pieri, Giuliana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
Series:European crime fictions.
Subjects:
Detective and mystery stories, Italian > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
FICTION > Crime.
Detective and mystery stories, Italian
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Giuliana Pieri
  • 2. Emergence of a New Literary Genre in Interwar Italy / Jane Dunnett
  • 3. Founding Fathers: Giorgio Scerbanenco / Jennifer Burns
  • 4. Literature and the Giallo: Gadda, Eco, Tabucchi and Sciascia / Joseph Farrell
  • 5. Mysteries of Bologna: On Some Trends of the Contemporary Giallo / Luca Somigli
  • 6. Crime and the South / Mark Chu
  • 7. Italian Women Crime Writers / Lucia Rinaldi
  • 8. Milano nera: Representing and Imagining Milan in Italian Noir and Crime Fiction / Giuliana Fieri
  • 9. Annotated Bibliography / Lucia Rinaldi.

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