Description: Crime Fiction, Paperback by Scaggs, John, ISBN 0415318246, ISBN-13 9780415318242, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, John Scaggs:presents a concise history of crime fiction - from biblical narratives to James Ellroy - broadening the genre to include revenge tragedy and the gothic novelexplores the key sub-genres of crime fiction, such as 'Rational Criminal Investigation', The Hard-Boiled Mode', 'The Police Procedural' and 'Historical Crime Fiction'locates texts and their recurring themes and motifs in a wider social and historical contextoutlines the various critical concepts that are central to the study of crime fiction, including gender, narrative theory and film theoryconsiders contemporary television series like .: Crime Scene Investigation alongside the 'classic' whodunnits of Agatha Christie. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is the essential guide for all those studying crime fiction and concludes with a look at future directions for the genre in the twentieth-first century.
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Book Title: Crime Fiction
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Mystery & Detective, General, Literary
Publication Year: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: John Scaggs
Item Width: 5.3 in
Book Series: The New Critical Idiom Ser.
Format: Perfect
