The pleasures of crime : reading modern French crime fiction /

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"For 150 years the French public and literati have enjoyed a love affair with crime fiction. This book investigates the nature of this relationship and how through periods of dramatic social and political change in France it has flourished. It challenges the conventional view of a popular genre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Platten, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Colección:Chiasma ; 28.
Temas:
Detective and mystery stories, French > History and criticism.
Crime in literature > History and criticism.
Criminalité dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Crime in literature
Detective and mystery stories, French
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'Black' Markets : the Emergence of the Genre in France
  • Profusion and Profundity : Simenon and the Paradox of the Crime Novel
  • Framing the Noir : The Individual in Society
  • The Aesthetics of Commitment
  • The Scene of the Crime
  • Shades of Noir : Modern and Contemporary French Crime Fiction
  • 'Une Nouvelle Nouvelle Classe d'Âge' : Youth Culture and the Roman Noir
  • Mapping Minds and Figuring Plots : the Novels of Fred Vargas.

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