Rundgang LoC (2007/1): Crime Fiction etc.

Was die anderen so machen:

Christiana Gregoriou: Deviance in contemporary crime fiction, New York, Palgrave Macmillan 2007. (”This book directly explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge linguistic norms, the boundaries of acceptable social behaviour, and the relevant generic conventions”: Verlagsanzeige.) (Vgl. Gregoriou über Scaggs: Crime Fiction, 2006 in IASL online.)

Kathy Mezei: Spinsters, Surveillance, and Speech: The Case of Miss Marple, Miss Mole, and Miss Jekyll. In: Journal of Modern Literature 30.2 (2007) (Muse). Abstract: “Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage, E.H. Young’s Miss Mole, and Ivy Compton-Burnett’s A House and Its Head are inter-war, middlebrow, domestic and detective novels characterized by narrative ambiguity and illusion. Through the voice and gaze of their spinster protagonists, socially marginal, yet potentially transgressive figures, these novels covertly query power and gender relations, while simultaneously upholding the status quo. Each novel’s techniques of focalization and narration are reviewed in order to demonstrate how normalizing concepts of home and heterosexual families are explored and critiqued. During cataclysmic events like murder or the death of a mother, ways of seeing are pushed to the fore. Yet in each case, once the cataclysmic event is resolved, the conventional order is restored by the effective surveillance of these spinsters.”

Patrick Anderson: The triumph of the thriller: how cops, crooks, and cannibals captured popular fiction, New York, Random House 2007. “Anderson shows us who the best thriller writers are– and the worst. He shows how Michael Connelly was inspired by Raymond Chandler, how George Pelecanos toiled in obscurity while he mastered his craft, how Sue Grafton created the first great woman private eye, and how Thomas Harris transformed an insane cannibal into the charming man of the world who made FBI agent Clarice Starling his lover. Anderson shows Scott Turow inventing the modern legal thriller and John Grisham translating it into a stunning series of bestsellers. He casts a cold eye on Tom Clancy’ s militaristic techno-thrillers, and praises Alan Furst and Robert Littell as world-class spy novelists. He examines the pioneering role of Lawrence Sanders, the offbeat appeal of Dean Koontz, the unprecedented success of “The Da Vinci Code,” and the emergence of the literary thriller.” (Anzeige, Rezensionen, Links bei Google-Buch.)

Jean-Michel Rabaté: Given, 1 degree art 2 degree crime: modernity, murder and mass culture, Brighton ; Portland, Ore., Sussex Academic Press 2007. “This exciting new study investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematized by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder”. (Verlagsanzeige.)

Maurizio Ascari: A counter-history of crime fiction: supernatural, gothic, sensational, New York, Palgrave Macmillan 2007. (”A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction, drawing on material from the Middle Ages up to the early Twentieth century, when the genre was theoretically defined as detective fiction. Considering ‘criminography’ as a system of inter-related, even incestuous, sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies and providential fictions, the gothic and the ghost story, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology”: Verlagsanzeige.)

Thomas Morawetz: Literature and the law. Austin, TX: Aspen Law & Business 2007. “A unique book that explores the intersections of law and literature through engaging and entertaining stories, book chapters, poems, plays, and articles along with discussion topics, Literature and the Law is the only available book of its kind. This engaging text covers a comprehensive variety of topics in law and literature utilizing shorter, thought-provoking, less canonical works of fiction from such authors as Herman Melville, Harper Lee, Agatha Christie, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cynthia Ozick, Albert Camus, and more. This approach welcomes students to develop fresh ideas through exposure to writers and stories primarily new to them”. (Verlagsanzeige.)

Stan Beeler: Dance, drugs, and escape: the club scene in literature, film, and television since the late 1980s, Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co. 2007. “In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept the youth culture of the United Kingdom, incorporating the generations’ two newest social stimulants: modern electronic dance music and a notorious designer drug known as Ecstasy. Although the movement began in rebellion against mainstream culture, its underground dynamism soon attracted the interest of novelists, screenwriters, and filmmakers who attempted to reflect the phenomenon in their works. Through artistic and commercial popularization, the once obscure subculture was transformed into a pop-culture behemoth with powerful links to the entertainment industry”. (Verlagsanzeige).

Forshaw, Barry: The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction. London: Rough Guides, 2007. (Erscheint im Juli.)

Lisa M. Dresner: The female investigator in literature, film, and popular culture, Jefferson, N.C., McFarland & Co. 2007. “In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television, and film”. (Verlagsanzeige.)

Verwandte Artikel:

1. “Crime Fiction and Criminology”
2. Crime Fiction Canada
3. True Crime
4. Zwischenablage: KL-Forschung, Neuerscheinungen
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