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LEADER: 01932cam a2200289 i 4500
001 2012049049
003 DLC
005 20130813075515.0
008 130205s2013 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012049049
020 $a9781429838221 (hardcover)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN3448.D4$bC73 2013
082 00 $a809.3/872$223
245 00 $aCrime and detective fiction /$ceditor, Rebecca Martin, Pace University.
264 1 $aIpswich, Massachusetts :$bSalem Press, Grey House Publishing,$c[2013]
300 $axxvii, 263 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCritical insights
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOn crime and detective fiction -- Critical contexts. From mean streets to imagined world: the development of detective fiction -- Your sin will find you out: critical perceptions of mystery fiction -- From "the case of the pressed flowers" to the serial killer's torture chamber: the use and function of crime fiction sub-genres in Steig Larsson's The girl with the dragon tattoo -- A comparative assessment: The conjure-man dies, Blind man with a pistol, and Mumbo jumbo -- Critical readings. Five hundred years of Chinese crime fiction -- Assimilation, innovation, and dissemination: detective fiction in Japan and East Asia -- Latin American crime fiction -- Criminal welfare states, social consciousness, and critique in Scandinavian crime novels -- From "hard-boiled detective" to "fallen man": the literary lineage and post-war emergence of film noir -- The metaphysical detective story -- Native American detective fiction -- American crime fiction readers and the three percent problem.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aCrime in literature.
700 1 $aMartin, Rebecca,$d1953 April 17-