Methods of Murder : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction /

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Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Cr...

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Autor principal: Past, Elena, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lombroso, Cesare, > 1836-1909.
Beccaria, Cesare, > 1735-1793.
Lombroso, Cesare, > 1835-1909. > Uomo delinquente.
Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794 > Dei delitti e delle pene.
Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794. > Dei delitti e delle pene.
Dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di)
Brott i litteraturen.
Kriminalliteratur.
Italienisch.
Detective and mystery stories, Italian.
Crime in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Criminalite dans la litterature.
Crimes dans la litterature.
Roman policier italien > Histoire et critique.
Detective and mystery stories, Italian > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy
  • Part One: Beccarian Introspection
  • 1 Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal
  • 2 Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives
  • 3 Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum
  • 4 Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom
  • Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection
  • 5 Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal
  • 6 Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence
  • 7 Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence
  • 8 Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare
  • Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century.

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