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The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
ISBN: 9780879724023 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of all crime fighters. Upfield was an independent, fiercely self-assertive ex-Britisher, who loved Australia, especially the Outback. In many ways Upfield became Outback Australiathe Spirit of Australia. "
In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of ...
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82,88 |
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The Pleasures of Crime : Reading Modern French Crime Fiction
ISBN: 9789042034297 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 feeding a niche market, depicting crime fiction instead as a field of creative endeavour, which has gradually matured into one of considerable literary fertility. By inviting us to share secrets and crack codes, creating suspense and (at times) not shirking from presenting horrific events in graphic...
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...
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340,75 |
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Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes?: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology, and Society
ISBN: 9780809317226 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that "the writer of detective fiction, without conscious intent, appeals directly to those moral and spiritual roots of society unconsciously affirmed and endorsed by the readers." Because detective stories deal with crime and punishment they cannot help dealing implicitly with theological issues, such as the reality of good and evil, the recognition that humankind has the potential for both, the nature of evidence (truth and error), the significance of our existence in a rational order and... Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that "the writer of detective fiction, without consciou... |
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160,97 |
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And Then There Were Nine. . .: More Women of Mystery
ISBN: 9780879723194 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within the formulas of crime fiction, this collection ranges from writers Daphne du Maurier and Margery Allingham, whose names are synonymous with conventional subgenres of crime fiction, through Patricia Highsmith, and Shirley Jackson, who deliberately set conventions aside or who moved those conventions into other realms. Most important, perhaps, Jackson, Highsmith and E. X. Ferrars depict civilizations that are not essentially orderly, that are not founded upon a commonly understood concept of justice--where one must make her own order.
Within the formulas of crime fiction, this collection ranges from writers Daphne du Maurier and Margery Allingham, whose names are synonymous with con...
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68,24 |
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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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403,47 |
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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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143,01 |
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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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195,06 |
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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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448,76 |
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Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing
ISBN: 9781439908105 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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312,18 |
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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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102,39 |
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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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468,31 |
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Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview
ISBN: 9780786476527 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of moral rebellion, the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country s social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888 1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911 1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921 1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy s...
This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of moral rebellion, the autho...
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272,84 |
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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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201,72 |
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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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201,72 |
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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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91,48 |
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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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91,16 |
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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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92,37 |
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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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342,95 |
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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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126,78 |
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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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59,72 |
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