100 American Crime Writers
ISBN: 9780230525375 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre.
100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American ...
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382,84 zł |
Detective Fiction and The African Scene. From The Whodunit? To The Whydunit?
ISBN: 9789956727025 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unfortunate stroke of irony, its respect has not kept pace with its enormous popularity. For over half a century now, it has remained the bane of creative writing. In strict intellectual circles, it is very rare to find people talk defensively and interestingly about the genre. Yet Asong has chosen to do just that. He has stoutly defended the weak by putting up a good case for its continued existence. He has also shown how irresistible key elements...
From its very inception, detective fiction has enjoyed a great popularity among the young and the old, the learned and the not so learned. By some unf...
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148,19 zł |
Crime Culture: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film
ISBN: 9781441150165 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures breathes new life into staple themes of crime fiction and cinema.Leading international scholars from the fields of literary and cultural studies analyze a range of literature and film, from neglected examples of film noir and 'true crime', crime fiction by female African American writers, to reality TV, recent films such as Elephant, Collateral and The Departed, and contemporary fiction by J. G. Ballard, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Margaret Atwood. They... By broadening the focus beyond classic English detective fiction, the American 'hard-boiled' crime novel and the gangster movie, Crime Cultures bre... |
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190,23 zł |
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey
ISBN: 9781611475524 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of...
By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examinatio...
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463,85 zł |
Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
ISBN: 9781439908112 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer," promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In Pimping Fictions, Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. Gifford draws from an impressive array of archival materials to provide a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural history of this distinctive genre. He evaluates the artistic and symbolic representations of pimps,...
"Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer," promised the cover of Run Man Run, Chester Himes' pioneering no...
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115,12 zł |
Literatur und Kriminalität
ISBN: 9783484350083 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (STSL) veroffentlichen seit 1975 herausragende literatur-, geschichts- und kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu vornehmlich deutscher Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Schwerpunkt der literaturgeschichtlichen und theoretischen Abhandlungen sowie der Quellen- und Materialienbande ist das Verhaltnis von literarischem Text und gesellschaftlich-historischem Kontext. Als magebliche Publikationsreihe einer seit den 1960er Jahren einflussreichen Sozialgeschichte der Literatur pragt STSL zugleich die... Die Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (STSL) veroffentlichen seit 1975 herausragende literatur-, geschichts- und kultur... |
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470,51 zł |
Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle: Multi-Media Afterlives
ISBN: 9780230300507 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.
Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary nov...
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191,40 zł |
Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions
ISBN: 9780230353985 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing.
A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American ...
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191,40 zł |
Success Secrets of Sherlock Holmes: Life Lessons from the Master Detective
ISBN: 9780399536984 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius - and the brilliance of others around him - into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character greater than the sum of his parts. In this title, the author looks at the traits that made Sherlock Holmes successful and explores how to unleash our own genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle funneled much of his real-life genius - and the brilliance of others around him - into Sherlock Holmes, creating a character gr...
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99,54 zł |
Crime Fiction: From Poe to the Present
ISBN: 9780746312179 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, this book concentrates chiefly on three branches of crime stories: the classic detective 'whodunit', the thriller in which the protagonist is opposed either to a powerful conspiracy or to society at large, and the hardboiled private-eye story, or detective thriller, which mixes aspects of the other two.
A historical and critical introduction to the genre of crime fiction, this book concentrates chiefly on three branches of crime stories: the classic d...
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197,62 zł |
Iain Banks's Complicity
ISBN: 9780826452474 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains of the Day' to 'White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to... |
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90,08 zł |
Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's "nazi" Novels and Their Films
ISBN: 9781137277633 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the ...
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325,42 zł |
Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion
ISBN: 9781472523938 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the genre and helpsyou get started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by bestselling crime writers: Mark Billingham, S.J. Bolton, Alafair Burke, Lee Child, N. J. Cooper, Meg Gardiner, Tess Gerritsen, Sophie Hannah, Jim Kelly, Laura Lippman, Gayle Lynds, Alex McBride, Val McDermid, Dreda Say Mitchell, Sara Paretsky, Jill Paton Walsh, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, S. J. Rozan, Guy... Crime and Thriller Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing in these exciting genres. PART 1 explores the n... |
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130,15 zł |
Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus : The Story of the Best-Selling Author and His Complex Detective
ISBN: 9781843582922 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fascinating biography, author Craig Cabell draws from his extensive interviews with Ian Rankin and presents a thought-provoking insight into the minds of the writer and his creation, and how their relationship has developed over the years.
In this fascinating biography, author Craig Cabell draws from his extensive interviews with Ian Rankin and presents a thought-provoking insight into t...
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64,98 zł |
The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 9780415861489 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narratives of suspicion & mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitute a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon by applying critical race theory & narrative analysis to issues & events of the late 20th century.
Narratives of suspicion & mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitute a metanarrative that pervades American cul...
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235,31 zł |
War Noir: Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction
ISBN: 9781496808646 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath of the Vietnam War. Yet, earlier writers in the genre, such as Raymond Chandler, remain overlooked when it comes to examining how their war experience affected their writing. Sarah Trott corrects this oversight by examining Chandler alongside the World War I writers of the Lost Generation as well as highlighting a melding of very different styles in Chandler's work. Based on Chandler's experience in combat, Trott explains that the writer... The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has influenced many contemporary crime writers, particularly in the traumatic aftermath ... |
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383,72 zł |
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9781441134318 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular genres, including: Science Fiction Part II of the book also... Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the s... |
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165,20 zł |
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9781441172013 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular genres, including: Science Fiction Part II of the book also... Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the s... |
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701,04 zł |
The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey
ISBN: 9781611477344 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime novels. However, apart from a limited scholarship on single cities, the genre has never been systematically studied in a way that so comprehensively spans Italian national boundaries. The originality of...
By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examinatio...
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231,92 zł |
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling
ISBN: 9780691164120 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insider's account of the curiously delightful activities and playful scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars. On Conan Doyle is a much-needed celebration of Arthur Conan Doyle's genius for every kind of storytelling. A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars... |
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73,74 zł |