Kleine Vorbemerkung im Hinblick auf IASLonline/Kriminalität und Medien: Ich habe derzeit weder Zeit noch Lust, aktiv nach Rezensentinnen und Rezensenten zu suchen. Wenn eine Mitleserin oder ein Mitleser sich trotzdem eines der Texte annehmen will, so möge sie oder er sich bei mir melden: Kontakt-Formular (erscheint nicht als Kommentar im Blog).
Sonja Osterwalder: Düstere Aufklärung: die Detektivliteratur von Conan Doyle bis Cornwell. (Literaturgeschichte in Studien und Quellen, Bd. 19) Wien: Böhlau 2011.
Verlagsanzeige: “Düstere Aufklärung beleuchtet die Detektivliteratur von ihren Anfängen im 19. Jahrhundert bis in die jüngste Gegenwart. Entlang von Berühmtheiten wie Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe und Kay Scarpetta werden die unterschiedlichen Ausformungen der Detektivfigur und der detektivischen Methoden in Augenschein genommen und die großen Umwälzungen innerhalb der Gattungsgeschichte thematisiert: der Wechsel von der Story zum Roman, der Einfluss der Psychoanalyse auf das Genre, die Ablösung des Privatdetektivs durch den Kommissar sowie der unaufhaltsame Aufstieg der weiblichen Ermittler und der forensischen Wissenschaften”.
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Rédouane Abouddahab and Josiane Paccaud-Huguet (eds.): Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars 2011.
Verlagsanzeige: “Ever since Victorian “craniology,” criminal violence has remained as resistant as ever to scientific measurement—even to the more recent techniques of investigation of the brain. Where women are concerned they were first and mostly fascinating victims but they also nowadays feature in the role of the criminals, adding to the first fascination the mystery of a woman’s desire beyond the pale of societal expectations. Indeed, more and more pieces of crime fiction nowadays refuse to grant the simple pleasures of old: what if, for example, the text refuses to comply to the “whodunnit” convention? What about those stories that instead of closure, will diffuse a mist, a sense of unrest by their emphasis on the inexplicable lure of violence? In other words, gone are the days of the satisfaction granted by traditional closure and return to a solidly structured society, made safe again by the disposal of the scene of violence”.
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Malcah Effron (ed.): The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990–2010. Foreword by Stephen Knight. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2011.
Verlagsanzeige: “International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre’s response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the twentieth century. Employing critical tools new to crime fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship”.
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Heather Worthington: Key Concepts in Crime Fiction. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2011.
Aus dem ersten Kapitel (PDF): “Crime fiction is a popular genre, produced and consumed quickly. Consequently, it can be and often is very responsive to the context in which it appears, affording important insights into its cultural, political and historical moment. But equally, both its status as popular fiction and its responsiveness create problems when it comes to locating crime fiction in particular contexts; popularity does not necessarily ensure literary longevity, meaning that the texts which survive the test of time are not always fully culturally, historically or politically representative, and the events to which criminography responds often lose their relevance once a particular moment has passed. As the General Introduction suggests, this text discusses crime narratives produced from circa 1700 to the present day, a period of over 300 years in which there have been enormous changes in society, particularly in terms of the growth of population, urbanisation, industrialisation; there have been unimaginable technological advances and scientific discoveries which have contributed to globalisation and the creation of a diverse and multicultural world. These changes have taken place against a historical backdrop of colonialism, revolution, national and international politics, two World Wars, the Cold War and in a concomitant rapidly evolving cultural context”.
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Stephen Knight: The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. 2011.
Umschlagsabb. und Vorankündigung stammen von Google: “A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever since. This historical and critical text examines the origins of the innovative genre, which sought to grapple with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and into America and Australia. Writers covered include Eugene Sue, George Reynolds, George Lippard, “Ned Buntline” and Donald Cameron”.
